> We have looked for more Elixir developers. They are rare beasts. But we have a lot of Python developers.
Was there any consideration of training up the Python developers on Elixir?
Was there any consideration of training up the Python developers on Elixir?
As the CIO, where the buck stops, I learned Elixir well enough to write my own Genserver-like implementation from scratch, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I wanted to be able to understand the code base. But I am still a far better Python developer than I will ever be an Elixir developer. It's all a question of time utilization.
Due to the modular nature of our integration, it's relatively easy to move from one platform to the other, one module-at-a-time. And in the end, the cost of getting a new Python-based platform up-and-running far outweighed the cost of trying to retrain Python devs.