Keynote: Adoption
summary
Dockyard announces Lumen, a reimplementation of the BEAM that compiles Elixir/Erlang to WebAssembly and demos supervisor trees and process spawning in the browser but warns it is not production ready; team started full-time work early in the year and aims for a tiny runtime target <300KB and eventual threading for rendering and event handling. Adoption data shown: TIOBE places Elixir below ~0.175% while Stack Overflow reports 1.4% usage and ~70% “love.” Phoenix, Nerves, Scenic and case studies with Apple, cars.com and Bleacher Report anchor practical adoption.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 3:18Adoption challenges for Elixir
- 15:22Functional programming stigma
- 16:31Evaluating technology for companies
- 18:35Lumen project and WebAssembly
- 26:52Hiring and talent supply
- 31:40Community evangelism and growth
- 34:09Language stability and maintenance
- 39:00Elixir's growth and progress
- 41:06Contributing to Elixir
- 42:53Case studies and outcomes
- 46:51Corporate secrecy and advocacy
- 47:34Investing in the ecosystem
- 50:51Can Elixir dethrone Java?
- 52:45Closing remarks and Lumen help
