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Regarding #1, as someone with managerial experience, I'm really tired of hearing, "We can't find enough Elixir resources". That's a cop out excuse. On the Discord, Slack, and Elixir forums, there are hundreds, if not thousands of devs looking for work. Often it is lamented that nobody can find enough Elixir engineers, but they also seem to have a very hidden agenda here. Executives just want the job done, and Elixir can do it, but all too often the trope of not finding enough resources is lauded about as a reason to stick to LANGUAGE_MANAGE_HEARS_ABOUT_MOST (Python, JS, RoR, et al). Everyone also only wants Super-senior-staff-principal engineers for Elixir roles, with 20 years experience, and can live code a project to perfection in 3 hours. Maybe realize that as the community grows and engineers adopt to the language, it's ok to bring in early-careerist resources, or others who just are getting started out. Give them a book, some assistance, and keep working with them, and it doesn't matter who knows it at first, in 6 months you'll have a rockstar team. |
If you're a savvy dev and a search like:
https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/default.aspx?q=Elixir%2C+Rust%...
comes up with zero for Elixir, you don't sink time into it.
If nothing else, you know that the low job availability puts you in a very weak bargaining position.