[didibus]

It seems making a Lisp popular is an impossible task.

That said, I'm not sure if the data agrees with you. I think Clojure is more popular and widely used at this time. Not sure, but I think from what I remember of the few rankings, and just the fact I don't know an equivalent success story to NuBank for Elixir, I think maybe Clojure is at the moment more popular in practice.

But with the amazing learning material Elixir is putting out, maybe it won't last.

[stu2b50]

In terms of major companies using Elixir, Discord and Whatsapp are built with it. Whatsapp is slowly chipping away at its Elixir for infra homogeneity reasons with the rest of facebook but discord is still all aboard the Elixir train.

[hactar_]

WhatsApp uses mostly erlang if I recall correctly.

[didibus]

Neat, I didn't know about Discord. Whatsapp I thought it was all Erlang, are you sure about Elixir being prevalent there?

I wonder if it's only a few teams handling major events at Discord, or if that's truly their default backend service language all their backend teams uses. If so, maybe I should look at their job listings :p

[thomasfortes]

From the discord blog posts it seems that elixir powers the chat system, with rust and python as the other two main languages in their stack.

As for whatsapp, they are mainly a erlang shop and yesterday they open sourced a type checker for erlang:

https://github.com/WhatsApp/eqwalizer

[jononomo]

Since Elixir just compiles into BEAM byte code, like Erlang does, can this type checker be used on Elixir code too?

[jolux]

I think they use Go too.

[thomasfortes]

They moved from Go to Rust.

https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...

[z9znz]

I would think that NuBank would want to market and promote Clojure to ensure that there would be ample numbers of Clojure developers (since NuBank depends on a lot of Clojure code). Perhaps they do market Clojure in Brazil, but I don't see it elsewhere...

[fshr]

With 213 million people, they do have a ton of devs and a ton of ESL speakers. There’s lots of places like that, like Turkey or SE Asia, where word doesn’t reach NA/wEU.

[throwawaymaths]

Do you use pagerduty? They're an elixir shop.