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Comment by runj__ | Hacker News Reader

Because javascript is one of the most popular programming languages in the world and the pool of Elixir programmers is almost non-existent?

From this https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/ Brex, Podium, PagerDuty use Elixir. They are in top YC companies, not a surprise.

Thanks for pointing those out. I would really like to switch to Elixir in my day job.

Do you think they got big because they use it or do they use it because they're big?

Pre-optimization is the root of all evil, my dude.

@runj__ You should read this blog post by Brex founder. He really says how Elixir suited well to the problem they were trying to solve https://medium.com/brexeng/why-brex-chose-elixir-fe1a4f31319...

In the end they picked it because they already knew it.

That's still a really good reason to pick a technology right? Especially if speed to market is one of your goals.

And that's the reason why most people chose Java(Script)

Discord used Elixir from the start

> pool of Elixir programmers is almost non-existent

Nonsense. There's more Elixir programmers (or at least those who want to program Elixir professionally) than there are Elixir jobs.

More Elixir programmers than Elixir jobs is not an incentive to learn and/or use a language.

No, but Elixir/Erlang OTP is worth learning in and of itself.

I mean, sure, but i already have a long list of that, probably longer than I can learn in a lifetime.

Things get prioritised when they help pay the bills