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pdimitaryesterday at 7:23 PM1 replyview on HN

I invite you to ask on ElixirForum. I have never seen a truly hostile response.

Sometimes posts don't get traction due to ambiguity, and some smelled like "do my homework" so people ignored them.

But every post with a genuine curiosity in it gets answered, as far as I can tell.


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sevenzeroyesterday at 7:27 PM

Yea I've posted there twice as far as I remember. You will absolutely get help, whether you understand the answers is a whole different story.

Elixirs community is great. Its just hard to learn because it's not yet widely adopted, there are no (non senior) roles for it and it's a lot of work understanding all the BEAM concepts. A thing just being interesting isn't enough motivation for me to learn, I need a bigger goal but with Elixir there do not seem to be any.

My last experience with it was building something with Phoenix Liveview until I noticed how easily you can hijack the websocket and just spam random commands to your server or temper with payloads (with regular webapps ive built i never had this issue). Which made me quit that project.

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