[lycos]

Wish it was different but realistically I feel like you are right (outside of Elixir specific communities).

I love working with Elixir and have done so successfully for the past 4 years at various companies, however I have been trying to find a new client for a while now and I'm getting close to the point of looking for other types of work because things are looking bleak. From what I can tell there are also way more people looking for Elixir work than available jobs, unfortunately.

In my 15+ years of software development in various languages Elixir has been the most enjoyable developer experience for me. So I guess I'll just have to think of a side project where I can apply it and do less fun stuff to earn bread.

[freedomben]

Yeah it's tough right now. One of the saddest things for me is the vicious cycle of "we can't use elixir because nobody uses elixir, so we can't use elixir because nobody uses elixir" ad infinitum. It's such a wonderful and productive stack, but people are just insanely comfortable with their typescript (or laravel, or rails, etc).