EMx 018: Devon Estes: “All In On Elixir”

Panel: - Charles Max Wood- Mark Ericksen- Josh Adams- Eric Berry Special Guest: Devon Estes In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Devon Estes. He is an American programmer located in Berlin, Germany. Devon is coaching on https://elixir-lang.org/, and his background is on Ruby Rails. Check-out today’s episode to hear how passionate Devon is about the Elixir program, and what he loves about it. Show Topics: 3:58 – Devon finds that the process of writing helps him find “bugs”. He tries to write once a month on various topics, such as what he has learned, and his freelancing work. 4:50 – One of the panelists says that he also writes, too, and how it helps him process what is going on. He treats it like a research paper, because he wants it to sound coherent. 5:43 – Devon used to work in PR and Marketing. What he learned from those fields is that: visibility creates opportunity. 7:19 – When you choose the technology, it’s about how easy previous resources to help support that if it’s the right tech. Finding https://elixir-lang.org/ developers is hard to find. Elixir ahs been that way for a while, but actually it is becoming the new and improved Ruby. You get the 10X productivity, but you aren’t held up by some factors. Have you ever had finding work in https://elixir-lang.org/? 8:22 – Devon: Not in the last year-and-a-half. Being a freelancer, stay visible, because you are constantly looking for different projects, and so on. There are other countries out there where https://elixir-lang.org/ is more prominent than compared to the United States. Companies in San Francisco are having a hard time finding Elixir developers to work with them. 10:31 – How was your transition from https://rubyonrails.org to https://elixir-lang.org/ and your writing projects? How did you go down that path? 11:07 – Devon: The more I wrote in https://elixir-lang.org/ the more he liked the program. Ruby inspired https://elixir-lang.org/, for sure. He likes how it’s comprehensive to him, and how productive he is with https://elixir-lang.org/. For Devon, it fits well with how he writes code; and because he’s happy, his clients are happy, too. https://elixir-lang.org/ language fits well with his way of thinking and there are other benefits for Devon by working with https://elixir-lang.org/. Devon likes feeling productive and it fulfills his needs. Finally, he also really enjoys the https://elixir-lang.org/ community! 16:51 – What do you not like about https://elixir-lang.org/? 16:55 – Devon: He found his first thing he doesn’t love about https://elixir-lang.org/, and he found it today, of all things! Listen to this timestamp to see what Devon shares. 20:47 – Question asked for Devon: How are other languages doing that, and what can we do to make that happen? 20:53 – Check-out Devon’s answer! 24:11 – https://www.digitalocean.com/ 24:48 – Devon continues his answer from 20:53. Programmers talk and, when more people are having certain experiences, the word is going to get out. The flexibility of the language is going to be great in the long run. Great sales pitch. 26:47 – Josh, you have a lot of...