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by weatherlight 1862 days ago
I went though that persons submissions/comments on HN. its literally the only time they mention Elixir, everything else is ruby/rails or python. Makes me wonder if it's a troll post.
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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 reading your inane comments in every Elixir thread, hiding under the cowardly guise of "doing it for the young developers."

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

> Im not at all negative about Elixir. It could be a fantastic tool, I never used it. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26905869)

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.
Of course not. But reading how somebody who is strongly convinced that their current tech choice is good is trashing another tech that didn't immediately solve all their problems isn't a compelling or objective criticism either, wouldn't you say?

Thinking back, I remember that the guy had 1-2 good points but the rest was mostly ranting. They are fun to read but rarely are informative.