On the flipside Spotify is starting to use Elixir. I don't think it matters until there is a mass of companies moving away. I see job ads ever so slowly increasing but heading in the right direction. And I never hear of people moving from Elixir to Node, Ruby, PHP etc. They are usually coming from those languages and enjoying Elixir.
Kotlin's a solid enough choice. Jetbrains do have some quality issues with respect to the IDE plugin (which is being merged into the IDE) but hopefully they'll get there.
Curious about the opportunity cost here and why not adopt things like typespecs and static analysis tools like Credo and Dialyzer?
I guess for people who like types whatever tools Elixir comes up with will never match a true typed language like Java or Kotlin.
Was the whole thing really worth a rewrite - have no idea. They also mentioned lack of libraries.
I don't really understand people who argue for types in a micro/small service environment. Most people don't work on a million LOC codebase anymore, instead they have a few dozens small-medium sized services. That's the current fad at least.
So why is refactoring so painful in a dynamic language on a medium service?
Brex didn't really provide much details here I have to say.
Is Elixir slowly dying out?
It seems to have passed a (local, at least) hype peak.
If the issue was about the story being spammed, the comment should say so, or indicate it with the list of times it was posted. The search query given was for "brex" and not specific to Elixir or Kotlin.