[josevalim]

It is curious to see Plataformatec being referred to as Elixir's parent company but I guess it makes sense legally. Plataformatec does own the trademarks for the name and language - which we are currently working on moving the control to the Elixir Core Team.

In terms of development, however, it is more of a shared custody by many community members and companies. For example, Elixir Core Team has 6 developers and only one of them was employed by Plataformatec (me).

So I would describe Plataformatec as an incubator. Elixir wouldn't exist without their support but even back in 2013/2014 we already had other companies investing in the language and the ecosystem. An investment which has grown over the last years. Plus, I am still directly involved in the same capacity as always, as this release shows. :)

[wincy]

Thanks for your work Jose! My second dev language in my career after PHP was Elixir, and I think I’m a better developer for it. It took me months to learn, I felt like I was learning Martian, but I hope to get back to a job where I’m working in Elixir some day.

[waylandsmithers]

Here here! Having only worked in object oriented languages before, learning Elixir completely changed the way I think about programming.

[pmarreck]

Gotta say "thank you" for finding the guts to pursue a new language, I think it's been my favorite of them all so far, and the code I've written in Elixir has always been very resilient, very easy to read, very easy to debug and very maintainable (not to mention, just fun to write!)... something which I credit more to Elixir's (and BEAM's) design more than my own.

Being on average 10x faster at the same kinds of tasks than Ruby is, also helps, of course >..<