Should you learn Elixir in 2024? 

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Just a note. The reason languages that are used less have higher salaries is probably due to a feature of statistics where small sample sizes give extreme results. Other reasons might include supply and demand and the skill level of developers. So yeah you get a higher salary, but there are also fewer jobs for that technology. Just look at job boards and compare how many ads there are for Java and C# and in contrast how many there are for languages like Go, Rust, and others. (This is normal since the former two are well-established and widely used) In my opinion, you should try out different stuff and try to invest in languages and technologies you think will be relevant in the long term. One other thing that is somewhat important and has been said by people who are probably smarter than me is to learn software engineering not just the syntax of a language. Being a good software engineer means a lot if not all of the skills acquired can be transferred to whatever language or technology you might switch to in the future. For example, if you are a good Javascript developer you will be a good React, but also Vue and Angular developer which is not true vice versa. Also knowing stuff like clean code, data structures, and language patterns will be applicable to most if not all languages/technologies.

I learnt Elixir, and now I am cool, and handsome, and well paid just like Jose Valim.

It'd be great to dig into the elixir actor model and message passing, and why that brings the benefits of fault tolerance and scalability without the nearly as much complexity as other languages

More Elixir content, please. Struggling with web dev stack choices, and your videos make it easier. Thanks.

Absolutely do more on elixir! It looks fun!

Coming from C++ and C# learn Elixir and Python feel very refreshing to me, Elixir in special with it's functional paradigm, for those people that came from static languages I suggest you give a try, is not the end of the world. More content in Elixir please.

I am an ML gal but I still learned elixir for playing with making a chatbot online. it was very fun I am happy with it , would love pipes in python

Really enjoyed learning elixir. Its a really nice language. Great video. Keep up the elixir content :)

Elixir is just great, beautiful syntax, powerful languange and overall a very worht experience

Great content ! These animations are pleasure for the eyes. Keep going man !

Thanks for the intro. More content would be great!

Elixir is one of the few eco systems that you only need to learn one language to do "Deep Stack" work. (Front-end, back-end + Machine learning and AI.) I would love to see more videos on that entire process

i was planning on learning elixer this week couldnt have better timing on the upload .

I started elixir like 3 weeks back, just because I was bored. Awesome language especially with the Phoenix framework

Erlang absolutely does not have a dot at the end of each line, it's at the end of an entire statement, rarer than semicolons in the C family. I actually really like its approach to this portion of grammar which is closer to human (or at least latin-esque) grammar with commas separating instructions within a statement, semicolons separating components of a compound statement and periods ending a statement. A lot of Erlang grammar is ancient and weird for many of us and doesn't offer a good QoL, but the periods are probably one of the least offensive parts. The main problem with both Erlang and Elixir is that they're relatively niche in both their primary use cases and level of adoption. Sure, you'll probably get a job that pays well, but it will be harder to find and acquire. Though you did inspire me to move Elixir up my languages bucket list right to the second place, after Rust. Can't wait to know another very interesting language and not be able to find an opportunity to use it, just like with Erlang currently xD

Elixir is a language that I have wanted to learn for quite some time but until I get a job and become a great developer with Python, I will postpone it (due to work issues) jsjs. Thank you very much for your videos, they are great, greetings from Chile.

Seems interesting. Would love to see more elixir content :).

I've been trying to learn elixir but a something that bothers me a lot is how hard (at least for me) is to configure it on neovim with cmp/mason. I would love a "Elixir for nvim" from you (:

in depth elixir content will be awesome!

The salary is not just because of Elixir benefits, it's mostly because there are far too few people specialized in it. Fewer Elixir developers means you need to pay more to find one.

0:54 I’m very much surprised to see Zig this high up. The language isn’t even finished, yet, lol.

I worked with elixir for a distributed system a few years back, it can be extremely powerful! It also just feel right to me, especially how functions are define, recursion, lists etc., would love to work with it again some day

bring more content, like building a real scalabe API using phoenix, should be awesome.

0:35 I was sure this is where the "sponsor of today's video" comes in

1:55 ahh i see whats going on there, thats cool, i actually was confused at first since usually when u define a function in traditional languages, ur expected to create an identifier for the arg(s) ur passing. but it looks like in elixirs case u can define a function to do something based on the VALUE of the arg. so its basically the same thing as comparing the value of the arg passed in the body of the function in a simple if else or match/switch block in other languages.

Yeaaah, more Elixir content 🙂

I am interested. Definitely.

Please do a The perfect Neovim setup for Elixir!

More content on Elixir please :)

Could you please make video about Scala in 2024?

MOAR ELIXIR VIDEOS. But seriously, yes please.

elixir is the only time I have ever seen a 1 microsecond response time.

Would you guys recommend learning this as a starter into software development? I been on my job for 21 years, looking to move up from warehouse to IT. They have a position for full stack engineer that uses Elixir. I already have an Aws cert. So i figure maybe if i learn this, i can apply for that role

what would be a good showcase project to work on using elixir?

anyone know what font is used in the code snippets?

How to making os specific binary in elixir

Yes, more elixir content.

I tried to learn Elixir but there are so few materials for it. It seems very esoteric. I wish there were more resources, not just basic stuff.

1:06 you said “horizontal scalability” but in fact the animation shows vertical scalability😅

Mahn, please do the dadbod plugins for NvChad

Waiting for the Neovim for Elixir setup video, plsssssssssssss

Would be good a comparison between Gleam and Elixir.

Would love to see more elixir erlang zig etc. Really not familiar with all of them

It reminds of me of Kotlin. Elixir is to Erland what Kotlin is to Java.

Yes please more elixer

What about a video on ash?

Elixir 💜

Elixir is fantastic, better than many langs. But it is not popular, getting a job there is extremely difficult.

Dev what is your suggestion for learn kotlin in 2024?

More ^^

Is it meaningful at all to look at average pay by language? I mean the language in use is probably the least impactful factor to a job’s salary.

Not because many people do something, you should do it to

Getting paid is a bad argument, its a skewed statistic, because you can get the same high pay doing a different language, but there are way less erl/elixir jobs and very few entry level positions. There are tons of JS entry jobs, so the average will be lower than Erlang, but that doesnt mean what you presented here.

Pro tip: Learn it if you have a personal concurrency project to implement in it that you intend to maintain for years to come. Do not learn it to get a new job in it, as the jobs are extremely rare, and moreover they require years of experience.

More elixir wanted.

You triggered my "alexa" every time you said elixr

please Please PLEASE make a OCaml video

Elixir vs Go please.

And there is gleam!

Concurrency dive please

Wait Ruby syntax is a good thing?

OTP is bad for crunching numbers

I tried elixir.. seemed nice at first, but then pipe operator is just dot syntax more complicated. I also hated phoenix folder structure. Makes no sense at all. Adding js to the web part? Seemed like hell to me.. maybe use it as an api, but still didn’t make sense to me. Auth generator? 🤢🤮 hated it

Sounds like an excellent hobby language!

Neovim for Elixir

Elixir isn’t a pure functional language like Haskell is, right?

Sometimes i see Elixir jobs but they require Elixir experience, it's like chicken and egg problem.

I am still triggered by that dot at the end of each line. in erlang.

Gleam ftw now

Learn Gleam instead

> Functional Woooo! > No Functors, Applicatives, or Monads Awwww :'(

1:58 l0000l

third

There's not that much elixir content, so it'd be a good niche topic to explore for you as a content creator/educator if that's something you're interested in. A good fundamentals course for elixir and some Phoenix projects for example

Sadly Elixir can go wrong very fast in the hand of less experienced devs. Rather than giving top performance it will ruined it instead 😅

So like Typescript for JavaScript but the exact opposite

no jobs

Elixir is nice, but no typesystem is a no go.

no jobs though 😂

Dynamic typing - it`s a pain for large code bases!

Second

Elixir devs have higher pay due to it being a more productive language. Capitalism is fair and equitable, and then equally shares the profits between…. NO. CAPITALISM DOES NOT! THE SHAREHOLDERS STILL KEEP ALL THE MONEY! But Elixir actually is very productive, and does only need smaller teams. This means they do tend to skew more senior, who happen to be higher paid. So it’s most likely due to that.

functional is half the approach, half the type system, a lot is lost if one is not there (ofc i say this as a haskeller ;) lol)

First

I tried to like Elixir but in thr end I found the syntax so attrocious

But no job openings in elixir

dynamically typed ew

This comment is in 2023. Premature Uploading (Just a Joke. Everyone Does that. Plus only 5 days left in the next year)

rust is better

No

Ruby syntax is more of a con than a pro, imo.

Rust>>>>>>>>>>elixir

You should!

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Nice intro.