[erlang-questions] Elixir community, please be more responsible; Erlang community, please demand it.

[Bryan Paxton]

 Who was the speaker?

On 3/23/19 11:13 AM, arif@REDACTED wrote:
> Yesterday I attended the Code Beam Lite conference in Bologna, Italy. It
> ended with a keynote by an Elixir Core Team member, entitled "Elixir
> Architecture 101".
>
> At the end of an otherwise interesting talk, which started with the
> presenter saying he hated Erlang (some in the audience found it funny)
> and in which he occasionally made fun of Joe and of the perceived
> shortcomings of Erlang, I couldn’t help wonder where Elixir was in all
> that talk, since the “Elixir” architecture presented, was practically
> OTP. 
>
> I find this very much in bad taste and not helpful towards a beneficial
> sharing and spreading of knowledge. I don’t know if the Code of Conduct
> of the Code Beam conferences contemplates this, but I would favour
> forbidding it. 
>
> If Elixir has something good to offer, and I think it has, let its
> community showcase that, advance the common good and knowledge, and not
> promote its cause through what, in my eyes, would amount to plagiarism,
> viz. letting things pass for Elixir, when they are Erlang/OTP, nor
> through ridiculing anyone or anything, least of all the very things or
> persons that made it even possible. It not only looks childish to me, I
> believe it is also damaging to the many excellent minds in the very
> Elixir community. 
>
> Elixir community, please be more responsible; Erlang community, please
> demand it. 
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