Thanks. That looks like the SV experience. I realise that this is an SV site, but it sure is tiring hearing the 1%s point of view as if it's the norm across the industry globally.
Geography. The replies I've read, as they so often do, ignore geography. SV might move rapidly from one to the next, but the city I'm in is more conservative and moves slower, so all I've ever seen much of from recruiters are jquery, knockout, angular. SV is the gladiatorial arena, and only the survivors make it through the filters to elsewhere, so elsewhere has fewer to deal with. If you engage with SV news while living elsewhere you'll still be trying to keep up, but if you hang back, things are a bit more laid back. Or, make the decision to ignore every other tech. If the next one is along shortly, you'll not likely miss much.
"it's an incredible privilege" -- how do you figure that? It's as accessible as accountancy, and I wouldn't say that's a privilege either, unless you're going to bring in the lack of educational opportunities available to bedouin kids. Maybe it's an accomplishment, it's a job, but how is it a privilege?
"People can like whatever they like or dislike whatever they dislike." -- Imagine if the above woman was a white guy publicising his thoughts on another group being ugly. People cannot like/dislike whatever they like/dislike, they are only allowed to dislike their own. This touches on black usage of the so-called n-word, and the white guilt - privilege and self-loathing. People do like/... whatever they like/... , but god help them if they say so - political correctness. You can get away with saying you dislike something like a sharia based culture, but anything more subtle than that and you're in trouble.
This seems one sided. Many white guys love a darker tone. What about Brazil turning out supermodels? I couldn't list or count any, but every time I hear something about models there seems to be a Brazil reference.
Those are the standard skills of marketing people I've worked with, getting paid around £30000/year. I find this very peculiar, maybe the companies particularly dysfunctional, but there seems to be a missing variable.
Its popularity increasing doesn't make it a new language. If you spend seconds on a web search you'll see that two is pathetic compared to elsewhere - I'm commenting on London there, not Go, or Elixir, both of which I would love to use, hence my grumbling.
I had a brief look at Erlang in my spare time. Time passed, and I would have returned to it at some point, but then Elixir appeared on the radar, and it appears almost as a refreshed, improved Erlang, an Erlang 2.0. Well, why would I learn yesteryear's implementation instead of a modern implementation? So, I looked at Elixir, and now would need an unlikely compelling reason to look back in Erlang's direction with any serious effort. When people talk about Erlang, they talk about telephone switches and data stores - I'm never going to be hired to build either, how many are? Elixir being used for more modest feats of engineering makes it sound more appealing and accessible to the mortal majority, hence building momentum. That said, I've just looked at the roles advertised at a large London tech fair - two Golang, zero Elixir, zero Erlang, numerous .Net and Java, countless Javascript. Long way to go for new languages, and London feels excruciatingly risk-averse.