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Last April I decided to work on open source every day for a month. I saw a gap in the Elixir ecosystem (a driver for RethinkDB) and I just started hacking on it. The help and feedback I've gotten from the community have been fantastic. It's a community where I can tag José (the creator of Elixir) on a github issue for my driver and he'll chime in with very useful feedback. Imagine pinging Guido or Matz about the right way to do connection pooling and them responding. It's a pretty awesome community.

Agreed. Elixir is my first foray into functional programming and the paradigm is obviously different from OO.

The Elixir community on both IRC and Slack have been incredibly patient and helpful for a hack like me. Both in solving specific problems and teaching how to solve future issues myself the next time around.

+1. The community is a big part of the Elixir ecosystem.

Another vote for Elixir. Very enjoyable community to participate in.