[aczerepinski]

For 10 years I’ve been reading about cool Elixir stuff here. Love the language. I gave up on finding a job in Elixir many years ago though after seeing salaries consistently lower than more mainstream languages. It may be the language I’d want to use most, but salary and cool product are more important to me than tech stack so it may never happen. Still fun to follow from afar.

[ch4s3]

> seeing salaries consistently lower than more mainstream languages

That seems surprising to me as an Elixir developer. Are you looking in the US, or elsewhere?

[davidw]

I keep an eye out in the US and there just aren't many of them out there.

And you have to be careful because some of those are

* "Bob wanted to try out Elixir, so now we use it for this one microservice, but we're mostly a PHP/Rails/Java/Python/whatever shop and we'd like to rewrite it one day, because Bob left a few years ago" - places where someone wanted to play with something shiny and new.

* Early stage firms where someone is a true believer that BEAM is some kind of magic scaling bullet or secret sauce.

[barrell]

Can confirm, am early stage founder who is a true believer that BEAM is some kind of magic scaling bullet or secret sauce, currently looking for elixir dev.

(mostly joking, if anyone is actually interested in ML, NLP, and Elixir, I have more pragmatic reasons for switching. Feel free to get in touch)

[Tao3300]

Dammit that first bullet is giving me PTSD

[acangiano]

Salaries are consistently above other mainstream stacks, partly because most Elixir jobs look for senior engineers.