Being taught, or at least mentioned, in schools with programming courses.
Resources that target young people or beginner (we already have some, but more, and more widespread).
Advertising outside the Elixir circle (Chris McCord asked the other day what podcasts would be a good fit for that).
Python has a major edge in France, being defined as the reference language (teached at high school and engineering schools), and as such it sets the frame.
For now, when I mention Elixir around me, although there is interest, the feedback is that it seems like a great language for connoisseurs and people with special needs (e.g. very high concurrency), which most people have no need for.
I personally think it's a great language overall, including from a maintenance point of view, and I try to advertise it as such.
Source: a dad with a 15-yo son who is totally into programming, and quickly saw that Python is everywhere together with Javascript (from a YouTube / blog posts / discord point of view). He doesn't understand why I "bother" with Elixir :-)
Resources that target young people or beginner (we already have some, but more, and more widespread).
Advertising outside the Elixir circle (Chris McCord asked the other day what podcasts would be a good fit for that).
Python has a major edge in France, being defined as the reference language (teached at high school and engineering schools), and as such it sets the frame.
For now, when I mention Elixir around me, although there is interest, the feedback is that it seems like a great language for connoisseurs and people with special needs (e.g. very high concurrency), which most people have no need for.
I personally think it's a great language overall, including from a maintenance point of view, and I try to advertise it as such.
Source: a dad with a 15-yo son who is totally into programming, and quickly saw that Python is everywhere together with Javascript (from a YouTube / blog posts / discord point of view). He doesn't understand why I "bother" with Elixir :-)