<story><title>Beam/Erlang/Elixir Concept Explanations</title><url>http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colesantiago</author><text>Very curious about the recent surge of Elixir &amp;#x2F; Erlang posts on HN, is there a reason for this?&lt;p&gt;How is the the job market surrounding this as well for Elixir &amp;#x2F; Erlang devs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brightball</author><text>Elixir shops are learning quickly that the best bet is probably to hire a senior dev that wants to learn and just give them a couple of weeks to learn.&lt;p&gt;As for the surge in interest, I can’t speak for everybody but when I dove into the language I realized it addressed virtually every short term and long term problem that I’ve experienced in my programming career. The rules it sets out force things to be done in such a way that many issues are avoided as a by product.&lt;p&gt;I find it balances all of my concerns better than anything else (productivity, performance, maintainability, scalability, learning curve, concurrency, stack simplification, capability, refactorability).</text></comment>
<story><title>Beam/Erlang/Elixir Concept Explanations</title><url>http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colesantiago</author><text>Very curious about the recent surge of Elixir &amp;#x2F; Erlang posts on HN, is there a reason for this?&lt;p&gt;How is the the job market surrounding this as well for Elixir &amp;#x2F; Erlang devs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ralmidani</author><text>I am starting my first Elixir role tomorrow. I come in with no real-world experience (edit: no real-world experience with Elixir specifically - I have a mid-senior level of experience using other languages), just some tutorials (Elixir Koans and Pragmatic Studio) which helped me submit a decent code sample. There aren’t a ton of Elixir roles, but hiring managers also recognize the shortage of devs so for a junior or mid-senior role they  might overlook a lack of formal experience with the language. Elixir roles also seem to have pay scales as well as work arrangement flexibility that are higher-than-average.&lt;p&gt;Geography-wise, I’ve noticed growing, “hipster” cities like Columbus (where I live), Denver, and Austin have a pretty decent share of the Elixir job postings (although, again, if you want to live elsewhere there are lots of fully-remote Elixir roles out there).</text></comment>