[cuddlecake]

What's a good side project, if one is not really interested in the problem space of the side project?

I.e. I mostly just program for money, so how do I motivate myself to do a side project I'm not interested in, just to learn the language?

I wonder if I could ask my employer for two weeks of time to "rewrite" parts of our backend in Elixir, just so I could scratch that itch, without any of the consequences of it actually reaching production.

Like a programming language sabbatical

[mrjoelkemp]

I find building a simple game (like tictactoe) in Phoenix Liveview to be a good learning project. You can layer on multiplayer using Phoenix pubsub once you have a working one player version. You can also then layer on structs, typespecs, or any other idiomatic features of the language that you need practice in.

[datashaman]

Exercism is great for learning a language. https://exercism.io/tracks/elixir