Elixir-lang.org

Elixir is a functional, meta-programmable language that is built on top of the Erlang VM. Created by Jose Valim in 2011, it has recently gained a lot of interest, especially amongst Ruby and Erlang programmers. Joe Armstrong, one of the inventors of...

So far we have seen how to use the basic data types and coding principles of the Erlang VM via the Elixir language. Now we will go full circle and create a working web application using the Phoenix Web Framework. Phoenix uses the MVC server-side pattern...

Elixir and Go have both grown significantly in popularity over the past few years, and both are often reached for by developers looking for high concurrency solutions. The two languages follow many similar principles, but both have made some core tradeoffs...

AUDIENCE: Cold! D.T.: Fata- cold? AUDIENCE: Yeah. D.T.: Then come up here and move your arms around a bit. It's great. Let me start off by explaining something, right. I love Ruby. I've been doing Ruby since 1998. I have read the Pick Axe book four times...

Disclaimer: The good folks at The Pragmatic Bookshelf were nice enough to provide me with a free copy of this book, but this has no influence on the contents of the review. My first contact with Dave Thomas was the famous “Pickaxe book” for Ruby. It...