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The Climb: Experiencing the Rise of Elixir from the Inside 00:43:22 by **Bruce Tate & Dave Thomas** (2016)
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Programming languagesHistory and cultureElixir and ErlangHistory of computing
Bruce Tate and Dave Thomas share their experiences and insights on the early adoption, growth, and community rise of the Elixir programming language.
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2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended for its insights into the qualities that made Elixir successful.
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u/bigfunlxin r/elixir • Recommends
On “Elixir, the bad parts?”
Are you saying you found a Quality Without A Name? :) there's a good talk by Dave Thomas & Bruce Tate about it: link to this video
u/Various-Sympathy-755in r/elixir • Mentions
On “BaaS (Supabase, …) vs Phoenix”
Re: lacking funding - Rails has BaseCamp... and I'd argue that money has been bad for the Rails community more often than it's been a good thing (I was part of the Merb crowd, though... so my opinion is biased). DHH is so problematic he can't even keynote a Rails conf unless he organizes it himself.
Nextjs has Vercel... which isn't much larger than Remote, Fly.io, or Dockyard... all of which are financially backing Elixir, Phoenix, or Phoenix Native. There are also enough large-scale companies invested in the environment that it's not going anywhere (Apple, Toyota, Pepsi, Goldman Sachs, etc).
I'd recommend an old Bruce Tate/Dave Thomas talk "The Climb." I'd suggest the reasons they were…