This is indeed sad news (I feel he deserves the black bar of mourning once confirmed). Although Elixir gets the most attention these days the solid engineering of BEAM is the foundation that Elixir is built on.
Joe was also a part of the Elixir community. He learned the language early on and participated in the mailing list and forums. Actually, he had just very recently become an admin at elixirforum.com. I will really miss him.
That's not what you're doing. You're shitposting about Elixir developers--while Joe was enthusiastic about Elixir to the point of being a mod on elixirforum.com.
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
If you knew Joe, you'd know he was strict about feature-creep in Erlang. He removed Paramaterized Modules, even though it broke some popular Erlang projects -- including the Chicago Boss Web Framework. This was one of the reasons Elixir was created. To make it more "approachable" to people who didn't have the inclination to be FP purists.
