Elixir Saved My Career.

This isn't my usual video. In a lot of ways. I was lucky enough to speak at Elixir Conf this year, and they gave me the recording to share with y'all. Elixir is a very important language to me, I hope this helps you understand why.

Check out their YouTube @ElixirConf

S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

[DueSoftware]

I have to say, I respect Theo much more after this video. This is actually a very motivating video, it's easy to see where people are without understanding their struggles and that transparency is respectable because it is not always easy to talk about things of that nature.

[kisaragi-hiu]

29:29 That's such a wild project. Shipping youtube-dl in production (and you're saying there isn't a better tool internally to do the same thing), doing automatic ffmpeg edits, making the thing in a week that turned out kind of meh, except it turned out useful for moderation… that's amazing.

[shlokbhakta]

Why does everyone I know who is an amazing dev get started by hosting minecraft servers lol (got me into homelabbing). That game made an entire generation of software devs 😂

[kenneth_romero]

Really appreciate the first 20 mins of your talk. Honestly sums up my journey of becoming a developer right now.

[todpale]

Motivating and inspiring. I’ve not known your background in detail before this moment. Now I’m hugely impressed. Thank you for sharing it!

[ThugLifeModafocah]

Yeah, I started to hear (read) about Elixir at the end of 2015, then I stayed just orbiting without landing. In 2017 I started a side project with a friend and selected Elixir to work with. We used Elixir for 2 years, till we gave up of the project in 2019, but in the meantime, we learned Elixir and I can tell that it was the best language I worked so far. I love the pipe, I the pattern matching in functions signatures... It reduces if's, switch cases etc in the code. It helps to achieve SRP... it is beautiful.

[stephenkbolton]

Been doing elixir for the last 6 years now. Dont see myself looking for another language anytime soon. Coming from nodes it brought my passion back for coding as well.

[carltonupp]

I really needed to hear this talk tonight. I've been absolutely lost in my career for a long time and your final point about not settling will stick by me.

[lolzthegreat]

elixir actually sounds like something i might learn just for fun

[EyeGuy]

damn this is really inspiring
i wached till the end
thank you for sharing theo

[keremtedu]

Everything about this talk was incredible!

[codeChuck]

19:42 Through sheer luck you were at the right place at the right time to do the things, that must be done.
So you were in SA, at Twitch, while they were the last one who used Ember and obviously they would need a rewrite!
:) So you helped them and acquired love for react :)

[TristanStoutenburg]

For me it was actually matlab. It was like so much better than a graphing calculator, and way more cool than excel, I really started to appreciate what a programming language could do.

[tecguevara]

I always wanted to learn Elixir but I have never found a great course for it. Can you recommend me with the best place to learn it?

[pertsevds]

Theo, thank you for sharing your personal experience!

[pertsevds]

"And Curse brought us the Curse of React" - LMAO!

[Ava-xzn]

elixir is amazing for real time systems

[AlemMemić]

Elixir starts at 23:19...You're welcome :)

[noormohammedshikalgar]

Do you still use Elixir ? Any active projects or some fun stuff ?

[cipanmandul]

They way you explain why you move to Elixir is exactly the same reason I change my solutions to Elixir.