Adam RoachI'm in the middle of a job search, and one of the things that I'm finding surprising this time around are the number of companies mentioning Elixir as part of their tech stack. I'm not seeing it very high on things like lists of languages used in Github commits, so I'm curious if this is just an odd coincidence of who I'm talking to, or if there's been an industry-wide uptick in Elixir use for large-scale production environments.
Aaron Williamson@abr it might be low on GitHub lists because an explicit design feature is minimizing LOC.
@copiesofcopies A fair point, but it also shows up low in lists based on PR count rather than LOC. I do suspect it might be underrepresented because OSS projects are going to bias towards languages that people want to use for hobby projects, while Elixir is optimized for some very specific solution spaces that will turn up more frequently in production than hobbies. I’m just surprised because I’ve heard far less buzz than I would expect if adoption is spiking.
@abr a very interesting bellwether, thanks for sharing it