[travisgriggs]

> screw Elixir by the way

If OP is reading… care to elaborate in a more objective fashion?

As an Elixir neophyte, one of the things that is a small frustration for me is that you’ll get to a problem and there just is no solution, and when you ask on the wonderful slack channel, someone will pipe up with a bit Erlang you use for that. It’d be like learning Japanese, and for sizeable pieces of your communication, your instructed to go next door to the Latin class to figure it out.

As near as I can tell, there is no such thing in the real world as a “just elixir” application. Any shop/product of size would probably love to have your Erlang expertise, provided they didn’t feel you were hostile.

[psychphysic]

I learnt Erlang when it was still cool. And more recently (but not that recently) dabbled with learning Elixir.

Most resources are targeting those who don't come from Erlang (mostly it was from rails). And my word are they being deceived.

I don't think the Japanese/Latin analogy quite works it's like elixir is rhyming slang and Erlang is english.

But everyone insists you can get by with rhyming slang alone. Errr. Nope!

[ch4s3]

I think a better analogy is Erlang being like Latin and Elixir being like Portuguese or Spanish.

But I digress, you can learn how the BEAM and OTP work as an Elixir dev without being great at reading or writing Erlang code.

[conradfr]

There's definitely "just Elixir" applications, I've worked on more than one. And I don't think any of my colleagues really knew Erlang.

(I don't consider using :timer or :crypto as having Erlang code)

But mostly that's more because it has been unnecessary rather than a dab at the language.