José Valim on the Elixir Language, Concurrency, Iteration

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Post by lidashuang » Mon, Dec 01, 2014, 2:50 PM UTC

José Valim on the Elixir Language, Concurrency, Iteration
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Re: José Valim on the Elixir Language, Concurrency, Iteration

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Post by g3rald » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 12:12 AM UTC

I started getting interested in Elixir, especially after seeing the amazing benchmark of Phoenix, built on top of Elixir >> https://github.com/mroth/phoenix-showdown

Re: José Valim on the Elixir Language, Concurrency, Iteration

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Post by bjg » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 4:17 AM UTC

I've had Elixir on by backlog of languages to play around with for a while now. This weekend I actually got a chance to sit down and poke around for a while. It was really enjoyable, love the tight integration of pattern matching. The ecosystem surrounding the language also seems very nice: The REPL, the mix build tool, and the nice integration with unit testing, are all very attractive features of the platform.

I took the chance to write up my beginning experience playing with the language, trying my best not to look at the docs. You can find the write up here: http://bjg.io/learning-elixir/

There also seem to a bunch of existing resources for getting started:

- http://elixir-lang.org/getting_started/1.html

- https://howistart.org/posts/elixir/1

- http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/elixir/

Re: José Valim on the Elixir Language, Concurrency, Iteration

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Post by muhmi » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 6:02 AM UTC

bjg wrote: post #3

I've had Elixir on by backlog of languages to play around with for a while now. This weekend I actually got a chance to sit down and poke around for a while. It was really enjoyable, love the tight integration of pattern matching. The ecosystem surrounding the language also seems very nice: The REPL, the mix build tool, and the nice integration with unit testing, are all very attractive features of the platform. I to…

I would also suggest this talk by Dave Thomas http://youtu.be/5hDVftaPQwY