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by wenbo 1523 days ago
This was actually my path. I started working on side projects and picked Elixir because I had my eyes on it for a few years and wanted to give it a shot.
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EricMausler 1523 days ago
What was your first elixir project?

Did you have any trouble skipping Erlang and going straight to elixir?

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wenbo 1522 days ago
> first elixir project

Simple Phoenix server that made requests to third party API endpoints.

> Did you have any trouble skipping Erlang and going straight to elixir?

I don't think I referred to any Erlang code and just picked up Elixir. Ultimately, you will have to pick up some Erlang but you can get away with just Elixir for a long time.

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nesarkvechnep 1523 days ago
You don’t need Erlang especially if you’re not developing in Elixir professionally.
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