here, i’ll start: i rewrote my startups platform in elixir about six years ago and it was a …
… here, i’ll start: i rewrote my startups platform in elixir about six years ago and it was a terrible business decision. not because elixir was bad —to the contrary, it was fantastic —but because the year and a half i spent reproducing functionality could have been spent adding new features that would have translated to new customers, and that would have translated to an additional million dollars when we eventually sold our bootstrapped business (obviously if i’m quibbling about a million bucks im not talking about a venture backed business here.) in terms of scratching my intellectual itch it was great, but i can’t defend it from a business perspective and whenever somebody brings up the notion of rewriting a core platform i tell this story. now can someone please write some elixir articles about cool stuff they did with it and get those on the front page?
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