[grimjack00]

Was it difficult to hire engineers proficient in Elixir, or was it difficult to hire engineers who could _learn_ Elixir?

When my employer decided to use Elixir for a new product, we had maybe 2-3 people experienced in Erlang/Elixir; for the rest of us, it was "'Programming Elixir' is on the bookshelf; start working through that." That and pairing with the more experienced devs got most of us up to speed enough that we were fairly productive in a couple weeks. Since we were basically a Rails shop at that point, the similarity to Ruby didn't hurt, and as I've mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, the docs for Elixir and major libraries are really good.