Leaving Everything Behind For Elixir [video]

Why do only a handful of developers get all the views these days? It used to be a lot more decentralized and interesting. Nowadays, there are a few somewhat junior people you keep hearing about over and over and they&#x27;re usually talking about boring mainstream tools which are mostly mediocre. They&#x27;re clearly being artificially pushed onto us by algorithms.<p>Early in my career 15 years ago, I was getting all my info from experienced old folks like Douglas Crockford, Don Norman and Alan Kay.

I find it challenging to take this guy seriously. In this particular video, he first claims to have extensive experience writing Ruby code, yet he seems to struggle with understanding a basic Rails CRUD example. I even checked his GitHub profile for past noteworthy contributions but was again disappointed. Is my critique too harsh, or is he just not accurately representing his expertise? Also did you know he used to work at twitch? I am sure but he may have mentioned it before.

So.. that&#x27;s 45 minutes of a YT&#x27;er&#x2F;fullstack-historian (more so than a dev) <i>reacting</i> to a post, and viewing other frameworks through metadata. &quot;Lots to talk about&quot;, not so much technical content.<p>&gt; That said...most of my work is clearly not in Elixir. What if I left it all behind? Dropping React, NextJS, TypeScript, tRPC, everything I&#x27;m known for? What about PHP, Rails, Gatsby, and Remix? Lots to talk about here<p>&gt; Daniel did just that, and requested I react to it, so here we are<p>&gt; Link to article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.to&#x2F;danielbergholz&#x2F;from-nextjs-to-rails-then-elixir-my-journey-through-reactjs-burnout-h8d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.to&#x2F;danielbergholz&#x2F;from-nextjs-to-rails-then-elix...</a>