Saturday, January 03, 2015

Elixir programming language of the future?

A very enthusiastic endorsement of Elixir functional programming language, and future "top 10".
With highly parallel and reliable engine of Erlang and programmer-friendly ethos of Ruby
it appears to be a "magic mix" that just may work.

podcast: Programming in Elixir with Bryan Hunter @ .NET Rocks!

course: Meet Elixir – Pluralsight Training
by Jose Valim creator of the language

home site: Elixir
"Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. Elixir leverages the Erlang VM, known for running low-latency, distributed and fault-tolerant systems, while also being successfully used in web development and the embedded software domain."
conference: Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2014
with videos on YouTube
editor: Atom
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

(he used Erlang to created CouchDB)

list of links: h4cc/awesome-elixir @ GitHub
A curated list of amazingly awesome Elixir libraries, resources

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