Elixir Lang Pros and Cons for Software Development - Startup Week 2020

[@headwayio]

Presentation Segments: 00:00 - Overview 01:00 - Finding the Right Tool for the Job 06:45 - Understanding Techniques and Dependencies 08:57 - Advantages of Elixir Lang - Brief History 19:25 - Common Behaviors 24:08 - Elixir Lang Success Stories 29:29 - Questions

[@abhaysalvi9787]

Hey, thanx man for this!!!

[@headwayio]

@@abhaysalvi9787 you bet! Glad you found it helpful!

[@hand-eye4517]

This is very explanatory, useful, and well organized content. The subsequent comments i am about to make may or may not be relevant for your personal goals but i believe if you were to package this up in a more dynamic and flowing way with more editing, you would exponentially increase your viewership .

[@LeviNotik]

Great video with very well-thought-out points. Thanks for this

[@headwayio]

Tim is a great teacher! We appreciate the feedback.

[@kayodealao]

What are the Cons?

[@headwayio]

Tim talks through this at 31:40 in the video. Sometimes it comes down to the right tool for the job. Just because you can use Elixir doesn't always mean you should. If your team doesn't have experience with it, it could be more of a pain to learn it while you build and make projects take longer than expected. That impacts speed to market. Finding and hiring more elixir developers or senior level Elixir developers can be expensive and hard to find today since the language and supporting community is still in it's early stages. Hope that helps!

[@verified_tinker1818]

If you’re not used to functional programming, you might find keeping state head-scratching. At least, that was my experience. I jumped into writing my code without sitting down and getting used to the paradigm, and the result was a frustrating slog with an over-complicated solution. I recently rewrote it into something much simpler. Another thing is the lack of loops. Many things are done through recursion, which is harder to wrap your head around if you’re used to simple for loops.

[@siyaram2855]

Please do a course. May be on frontend masters, there is dearth of course when it comes to elixir

[@headwayio]

Thanks for the feedback. I’ll share this with the team and see what we can do.

[@siyaram2855]

@@headwayio Thank you so much for the reply. I said Frontend masters because they already have defined format and also we have requested them to bring a elixir instructor so they are looking for someone to do a course on elixir. There is a couse by the name Go for JS developer. It is getting good traction. A course with name Elixir for JS Developer would be great. Otherwise you can do a course independently also, using udemy skillshare or even teachables. Without good education material, elixir will not get the attention it deserves.

[@sumanth3036]

wow.. thanks a lot

[@donovanvanderlinde3478]

Thank you!

[@headwayio]

Thanks for watching! Happy to help. 🤗

[@davidconnelly]

Brevity!