Joy of Elixir
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Joy of Elixir
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Re: Joy of Elixir
#2I've certainly enjoyed Elixir as an nth programming language and the idea of Elixir as a 1st programming language is really interesting.
I know I've seen at least one educator in the community speculate that Elixir (or FP languages in general) could potentially make great 1st programming languages because they're often conceptually easier than OOP languages and in many ways the difficulties people associate with learning them come from the difficulty of unlearning some of the things they already know.
Re: Joy of Elixir
#3I've certainly enjoyed Elixir as an nth programming language and the idea of Elixir as a 1st programming language is really interesting. I know I've seen at least one educator in the community speculate that Elixir (or FP languages in general) could potentially make great 1st programming languages because they're often conceptually easier than OOP languages and in many ways the difficulties people associate with lear…
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#4is there any news recently about Elixir? I'm asking since recently Im seeing a lot of articles about how to get into Elixir which is really nice since I just started pickup the language as well.
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#5is there any news recently about Elixir? I'm asking since recently Im seeing a lot of articles about how to get into Elixir which is really nice since I just started pickup the language as well.
Erlang/OTP 20.0, Elixir 1.5 and Phoenix framework 1.3 were all released in a timespan of 2 months or so - huge improvements to the already great ecosystem.
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#6This doesn't improve the current docs or tutorials.
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#7is there any news recently about Elixir? I'm asking since recently Im seeing a lot of articles about how to get into Elixir which is really nice since I just started pickup the language as well.
A good youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFKQ85T69sYhifDHF7dnPgw/vid...
Kind of like a quick guide:
https://elixirschool.com http://elixirbridge.org/02_Intro_to_Elixir/01-why-program-wh...
I think Elixir isn't that hard about syntax. Just start to do something and learn it on the go, see how people do it.
I have experience with it, quite nice: https://github.com/yeo/betterdev.link/tree/master/community/...
Which power: http://one.betterdev.link
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#8There seems to be an unfortunate number of "TODO: Add image here"-type blocks in this. Other than that, a quick glance seems good to me.
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#9is there any news recently about Elixir? I'm asking since recently Im seeing a lot of articles about how to get into Elixir which is really nice since I just started pickup the language as well.
The Elixir News category on the Elixir Forum (or just the forum itself) is a good place to look for important updates:
Re: Joy of Elixir
#10This doesn't improve the current docs or tutorials.
It does if you are an absolute beginner to programming. If you are already seasoned then yes it doesn't add much, it just means you aren't the target audience.