Elixir - Modern alchemy performed on top of the Erlang virtual machine

An introduction to Elixir delivered at the FuncProgSTHLM meetup in Stockholm, 2014-10-30.

http://www.meetup.com/FuncProgSTHLM/events/208417642/

Transcript

1. Elixir Modern alchemy performed on top of the Erlang virtual machine
2. José Valim
3. Elixir - Erlang TNG
5. Lennart Fridén @DevLCSC
6. Warmup
7. Matching and Pinning
8. Recursion
9. The pipe operator
10. Processes
11. lightweight isolated concurrent communicates by passing messages conceptually no difference between local and remote processes
12. A simple key-value store
14. Providing a client API
16. OTP - GenServer
22. Adding a supervisor
23. It keeps coming back!
24. Macros
25. compile time macros hygienic - by default does not affect the context lexical - no global injection of code or macros can be used to create domain specific languages
26. Tools and Resources
27. Mix - a build tool
29. Hex - a package manager
30. Help is near
31. http://elixir-lang.org
32. Programming Elixir - http://pragprog.com Introducing Elixir - http://oreilly.com Exercism - http://exercism.io
33. http://www.meetup.com/stockholm-elixir