[jiggawatts]

When José Valim “moved on” from Ruby development to work on Elixir, his fans followed.

It’s a bit like true believers switching faiths when their leader changes religions.

It’s hard to make sense of it from the outside looking in, but it’s definitely a thing that happened historically and occurs in small and big ways even today.

[throwawaymaths]

i had never heard of jose until i started working in elixir. i had about two years of grueling ruby experience[0] and boy was elixir an amazing breath of fresh air.

what is also a thing is stockholm syndrome and sunk cost fallacy.

[0] ok, now that i think about it also this was when ruby was having serious 1.84-2.0 transition troubles and i had difficulty reinstalling ruby if i needed to redo the os because some python wheel broke everything, so i had other historical reasons to leave ruby with a bad taste in my mouth. i think my gripes about activerecord are real, though.