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by d3nj4l 1435 days ago
Love the fact that they got the PR through in 10 minutes. Jose Valim is genuinely one of the warmest and most welcoming language BDFLs I've ever seen, and I don't believe Elixir would be as great without him.
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He's everywhere. You open a issue on one of the dozen most used Elixir libraries, and he'll answer by end of day. I envy his work ethic and I appreciate how he's always very patient with everybody.

In general everyone at dashbit seem to be very warm people. Good culture fosters good culture.

He's helped me several times in the #elixir freenode channel as well. And of course their elixir books are a godsend.
Same here. More than once I asked a question on the channel (now on Libera?) and the first person to answer would be Jose. I can highly recommend the series of interviews that the Thinking Elixir podcast did with him where they go through the entire history of Elixir versions:

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/

As someone who loves Elixir, but is bad at it, which books are you referring to? I will buy them instantly.
Elixir in Action is pretty good
Much appreciated!