@KuteboiCoder @mint @i @feld @j

> Presumptuously assuming here that you need Erlang and Elixir for #Pleroma and precisely nothing else,

You do need those to hack on Pleroma because Pleroma is written in Elixir, but there are dependencies that are written in C, too. There's probably other stuff in there.

> cuz I had literally never heard of either of those languages before getting involved in #fedi

I did some Erlang at an old job; I'd never done Elixir but I saw people talking about it.

It gets easier to pick up languages the more you pick up anyway. And then you know, like anyone can pick up awk in 30 minutes, most of the shells anyone uses are scripting languages you can pick up gradually.

:bwk: Had a pretty fascinating talk on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4U4r_AgJU