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/

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1. Elixir
   Modern alchemy
   performed on top of
   the Erlang virtual machine
   

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2. José Valim
   

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3. Elixir - Erlang TNG
   

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5. Lennart Fridén
   @DevLCSC
   

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6. Warmup
   

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7. Matching and Pinning
   

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8. Recursion
   

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9. The pipe operator
   

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10. Processes
    

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11. lightweight
    isolated
    concurrent
    communicates by passing messages
    conceptually no difference between local and
    remote processes
    

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12. A simple key-value store
    

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14. Providing a client API
    

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16. OTP - GenServer
    

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22. Adding a supervisor
    

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23. It keeps coming back!
    

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24. Macros
    

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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
    

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26. Tools and Resources
    

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27. Mix - a build tool
    

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29. Hex - a package manager
    

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30. Help is near
    

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31. http://elixir-lang.org
    

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32. Programming Elixir - http://pragprog.com
    Introducing Elixir - http://oreilly.com
    Exercism - http://exercism.io
    

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33. http://www.meetup.com/stockholm-elixir
    

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