I am using Elixir to mentor some people who have not been professional programmers. In some ways it’s easier for them to use a functional language after never having had experienced object oriented languages.
We are trying to invite 10-20 scholarship attendees to women and minorities for GigCityElixir, and we don’t want them to be lost when they get to hear the big guns: Dave Thomas, John Hughes, Chris McCord, Stu Halloway, etc.
Very cool.
