I was wondering why Brex left Elixir, and what happened to all of the tooling they created to work in the language. From their blog[1]:
> Building and maintaining internal libraries to support Elixir as our primary backend language became time consuming, and few other users in the ecosystem seemed to share enough use cases to make OSS collaboration mutually beneficial.
The whole point of giving things, and contributing code, is to do it without the expectation of a return or that anyone will even use it. It’s the mystery and the surprise of the way in which others benefit that makes our entire ecosystem work. When companies ride on the volunteer labor of others to become worth billions, and then come up with all sorts of excuses for why they can’t give back... I guess the success of AWS demonstrates that nobody will care.
> Building and maintaining internal libraries to support Elixir as our primary backend language became time consuming, and few other users in the ecosystem seemed to share enough use cases to make OSS collaboration mutually beneficial.
The whole point of giving things, and contributing code, is to do it without the expectation of a return or that anyone will even use it. It’s the mystery and the surprise of the way in which others benefit that makes our entire ecosystem work. When companies ride on the volunteer labor of others to become worth billions, and then come up with all sorts of excuses for why they can’t give back... I guess the success of AWS demonstrates that nobody will care.
1: https://medium.com/brexeng/building-backend-services-with-ko...