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		hollerith 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jane Street's sneaky retention tactic Interesting. So the people you already have can't just learn Elixir to the required standard or rather doing so is not in their self-interest.

pavel_lishin 3 months ago [–]

> or rather doing so is not in their self-interest.

Nor in the interest of the company at large, to be honest. Elixir doesn't really give us anything specific for our use case that other, more popular languages, don't also offer.

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