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Re: Elixir 1.12

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Post by Semiapies »

1_player wrote: post #93
joelbluminator wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What made you do that? Genuinely curious. You immediately suspect trolling when you see people complaining about Elixir?

Oh yes, @joelbluminator, the troll-in-chief when it comes to Elixir posts. You really have an axe to grind against this language, do you? > For one I really do think Elixir is a horrible career choice and I wanna save young average developers who still have time to correct that mistake ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27204755 ) Sadly, your trolling is too subtle to get shadow banned, so we are doomed to keep r…

The funny thing is that I remember back in the Aughts when guys like that were trying to "save" people from using Ruby or Python.

Re: Elixir 1.12

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Post by rkangel »

anonymousDan wrote: post #78

As an aside, I teach Elixir as part of my distributed systems MSc course. Anyone here in the London area (or even UK) looking for junior engineers? It would be nice to have some companies to point my students at when they start looking for jobs (or year in industry).

I work in the Wireless and Digital Systems department of Cambridge Consultants (Cambridge, UK). We build weird and wonderful radio systems for clients. We are using an increasing amount of Elixir and Erlang because it's a great fit for what we do, but it's still in the minority.

Re: Elixir 1.12

#103

Post by d3ckard »

anonymousDan wrote: post #78

As an aside, I teach Elixir as part of my distributed systems MSc course. Anyone here in the London area (or even UK) looking for junior engineers? It would be nice to have some companies to point my students at when they start looking for jobs (or year in industry).

V7(v7labs.com) is based in London and we are going to be looking for junior engineers quite soon. We use Elixir quite extensively. Drop us an email!

Re: Elixir 1.12

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Post by anonymousDan »

zebra_pendula wrote: post #97
anonymousDan wrote: post #78

As an aside, I teach Elixir as part of my distributed systems MSc course. Anyone here in the London area (or even UK) looking for junior engineers? It would be nice to have some companies to point my students at when they start looking for jobs (or year in industry).

Oh really cool! Which University then?

Thanks. For various reasons I'd rather not say here.

Re: Elixir 1.12

#105

Post by anonymousDan »

rkangel wrote: post #102
anonymousDan wrote: post #78

As an aside, I teach Elixir as part of my distributed systems MSc course. Anyone here in the London area (or even UK) looking for junior engineers? It would be nice to have some companies to point my students at when they start looking for jobs (or year in industry).

I work in the Wireless and Digital Systems department of Cambridge Consultants (Cambridge, UK). We build weird and wonderful radio systems for clients. We are using an increasing amount of Elixir and Erlang because it's a great fit for what we do, but it's still in the minority.

Yes I know your company, but wasn't aware you were using Elixir/Erlang. Thanks for the heads up!

Re: Elixir 1.12

#106

Post by anonymousDan »

d3ckard wrote: post #103
anonymousDan wrote: post #78

As an aside, I teach Elixir as part of my distributed systems MSc course. Anyone here in the London area (or even UK) looking for junior engineers? It would be nice to have some companies to point my students at when they start looking for jobs (or year in industry).

V7(v7labs.com) is based in London and we are going to be looking for junior engineers quite soon. We use Elixir quite extensively. Drop us an email!

Will do, thanks!

Re: Elixir 1.12

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Post by randito »

This video by Saša Jurić -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE -- is really interesting.

It moves kind of fast and you might need to rewatch a few parts, but it demonstrates some of the principals that make Elixir / Erlang so compelling.

If you watch this, imagine what you would need to do as a developer to make this work in your language of choice.

Re: Elixir 1.12

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Post by konart »

scns wrote: post #47
konart wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For the people who understand Elixir/OTP's strengths it's excellent. Is there any place to read about this on a more or less basic level? I bet many people will just ask what benefits they may get from this instead of apps build using Go (for example) + rabbitmq

Sorry only have a video for you, still worth watching IMHO https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE

Thank you!

Re: Elixir 1.12

#109

Post by manusachi »

ch4s3 wrote: post #74
losvedir wrote: post #8

Several versions ago Jose talked about how Elixir is basically "done", which is so refreshing these days! But since then, the developer experience has improved by leaps and bounds through all these improvements other than the core language. As a professional Elixir developer for the last 4 years, I'm loving it. A few improvements in the last few versions off the top of my head that have been really nice: * Robust, ti…

> Not really Elixir, but I'm jazzed about Erlang/OTP 24 JIT support for better performance. I'm really interested to see how the JIT effects our app. I've seen some reports suggesting that a 20% bump in speed isn't unreasonable to expect.

Havent's measured by myself but I'd expect performance noticeable improvement for GraphQL apps that use Absinthe, since significant time is spent on parsing, validating and serializing data around resolvers.

See this thread in elixirforum https://elixirforum.com/t/absinthe-graphql-performance-issue...

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