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I spent some years of my professional life very much in contact with the Elixir ecosystem. I can confirm that, with some caveats, this is true

You mean like this? gitblixt.com/gitblixt/git...

at://lang oh fuck

LOL

This is the image i had in mind when talking about it yesterday!

Been working with Elixir for 7 years. It is true.

Its true Paul and the llms are very good at elixir. Extremely so.

Wrote a websocket endpoint in Elixir that connects to like 7 streaming speech recognition websockets and sends back the one with the lowest latency to the user and kills the rest. Was so easy that I believed that all of this is true

The best things come from working on "something you're not supposed to be" ;-)

The OTP is a bit archaic in its own right but I can highly recommend learning a few bits of it just as a taster. Did this 2yrs ago between jobs and was a lot of fun and eye opening.

Ok fine here’s an example. I wrote about a way to make a distributed job runner with tools in the shed 10 years ago. I updated the post recently to work still today and it took me an hour and change to fully get it up to date from the original github.com/notactuallyt...

Are you FIRE?

You mean the majestic SUSE Trento