The referenced post is from 2020, and nubank still posts clojure content and sponsors the big clojure conference, so I’d be shocked if they were dropping clojure.
Their tech stack is probably enormous, it wouldn’t surprise me if they’re using both for different things
Also the referenced post is about them acquiring plataformatec, not about using elixir. Jose Valim (the creator of elixir) left plataformatec after the nubank acquisition in order to continue developing elixir, I've never heard of nubank using elixir, afaik they're solidly a clojure shop with no plans on changing.
it's just an internal I/O-bound project, where BEAM concurrency makes lots of sense. Grown from an engineer's side project as it was useful and working well, not a company-wide effort to bet on Elixir
Preach. I found the whole "just use stdlib" culture in Go so annoying. I love the language (both Go and Ruby actually), but Go's ecosystem and tooling is eons behind.
Maybe I am comparing apples and oranges, not sure.
Not around text field searches.
Something as simple as searching for exact fragment with punctuation (think function header) often does not work at all.
Started it back at the end of 2014. I have been maintaining a twice-a-month publishing schedule (roughly) for the past two years.
In the past year and a bit I've been focused on writing about backend topics from a Go angle. Usually the posts are +3K words, with relevant code examples, explaining a deep technical topic. I always try to I take the reader from first principles and build the knowledge up from there.
Any tips on starting a newsletter? Or resources on landing pages, the newsletter design or mailing platform? Or anything you wished you knew before you started? :)
Wow, this would be a huge comment if I tried to tackle each of these topics! Also, it's only been about 2 months since I officially started e-mailing so take what I say with a grain of salt :)
I will say that It's been a valuable exercise to e-mail every unsubscriber and ask why they left.
The number one reason people leave is because they don't want to get an e-mail every day. We now offer a weekly recap email because of this feedback, and I've actually had people return to the list who had previously left.
Sending an e-mail to someone is a privilege. Especially a daily e-mail. In my opinion our time/attention is one of the most precious things we have.
I want the reader to be able to read and comprehend the opportunity in under 30 seconds and leave feeling like the e-mail had a positive impact on their day.
If you're looking for any advice in specific, get in touch, I'm always happy to help :)
