Creator of the functional programming language Elixir and cofounder of Plataformatec, a software consultancy specializing in Elixir and Ruby, José Valim discusses how it all started with programming, the lessons he learned while creating Elixir, and his involvement in its future. Learning how to do thingsWhen I was 8 to 10 years old, I had my first home computer, which was kind of privileged—it wa