We’ve been running elixir in production since 2017.
During the pandemic, our elixir app sent/received 45 million text messages, helped schedule 1.5 million vaccination appointments, and a few million COVID testing appointments.
It all scaled and performed flawlessly. Any bugs were our fault :-)
There's also the legendary bleacherreport abandoning elixir and totally shooting themselves in the foot.
Several fintech companies moved off - brex, ramp. I think for brex they were told by VCs to hire XYZ CTO and the CTO couldn't elixir. Hilariously I ran into ramp people totally in the wild who complained that "they couldn't find elixir devs". I told them "you just randomly ran into one". I think their hiring processes were likely broken, but what's new in silly valley?
You can always find stories of people moving off of stacks. Sometimes they just legitimately evolved in a direction the stack wasn't the best solution for. Sometimes they should never have picked the stack in the first place. Sometimes a new leader came in who had preconceived notions that the company needed to conform with. You really have to look at the specifics of the story to know if it's relevant to you.
In my very opinionated opinion, it's actually reasonably uncommon for me to read a story of someone leaving a stack and not classifying it as one of the things I listed above. Of the cases I would consider "legitimate", it's usually a performance issue; some languages and runtimes are just intrinsically slower than others, or at least, intrinsically slower without an unrealistic amount of effort. (Elixir would be middling here. BEAM is kind of between the dynamic scripting languages and the compiled languages. The interpreter is simple enough that it can run much faster than the dynamic scripting languages but it would be completely unacceptable performance for any compiled language. You can run out of performance in BEAM, but it does take a system that needs performance and some growth to get there.) The rest are probably complexity explosion of some framework, and this is almost always a UI framework problem.
I don't understand the fixation on hiring $LANGUAGE devs. If you can't find any developers using your current stack, pay for a course or a book for them and train them on it. Training a competent developer to use a new programming language has to be easier, cheaper, and faster than rewriting your entire software stack.
That's really interesting; the research methodology seems perhaps a bit flawed though. They didn't seem to explain the "power" metric very well when asking the question (in section 3.1 they said the question was ranked on a scale of 1 to 7 from powerless/lacking control to powerful/in control which seems a bit abstract). The ratio of men to women was 3:7 and in both annual income and age the ranges were quite small focusing mainly on an average age of 30 +- 5 years and annual income between $40k-$60k.
Ever since Bluesky launched verification checkmarks and then @dame.is launched cred.blue's verification tool to simplify creating verification records, I thought it would be very cool to be able to visualize those records on the BlueSky appview.
I originally created this as a bookmarklet which was very fun but it got a bit annoying to constantly bundle and update the bookmark so I moved to a user.js approach that works with tampermonkey instead. The demo vid linked below showcases a slightly earlier version where it was still using the bookmarklet but both versions are still kept up to date.
Hackclub just launched shipwrecked which is a hackathon that will take place on an island in the Boston bay from august 8-11.
There are 130 spots at this hackathon and in order to get one you need to work on 4 projects over the summer and try to get at least one of them to go viral (top of hn being on of of the ways) as well as work on those projects for at least 60 hours.
Hackclub has done a bunch of other incredible hackathons in years past like [trail](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufMUJ9D1fi8) (30 teens hike the pacific crest trail with hardware they made themselves), [boreal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiG3fYq3xUU) train hackathon across Canada (sadly cut short because of wild fires in Jasper so they didn't get to traverse the whole length just the first half), and the latest one [Juice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiDWvGPl0z0) where 100 teenagers worked on their games for 100 hours each and then opened a gaming cafe in Shanghai!
Personally (i know practically nothing about signing lol) i’m wondering how much actual users are going to use this. I kind of wonder if it’s gonna be gonna be kind of like a hash. Or is this going to be integrated into model software?
HCB is a fiscal sponsorship platform for highschool students to give them the tools to easily and efficiently managed funds. By being fiscally sponsored by a 501c3 students get the ability to have tax free donations and they can use the open mode to publicly disclose their transactions! You can see an example of such an org at [hcb.hackclub.com/hq](https://hcb.hackclub.com/hq) where hackclub has their finances public.
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