Elixir 101

Intro to Elixir.

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1. Elixir
2. Getting started
3. What is Elixir?
4. José Valim
5. José Valim
6. The problem
7. Source: The Future of Computing Performance (2011)
8. Source: The Future of Computing Performance (2011)
9. Source: The Future of Computing Performance (2011)
10. to run code faster you need to run it concurrently
12. Erlang Virtual Machine low-latency concurrent distributed fault-tolerant scalability
16. Elixir
17. Getting started
18. What is Elixir?
19. Functional language
20. José Valim "Functional programming is associated with concurrency but it was not by design. It just happens that, by making the complex parts of our system explicit, solving more complicated issues like concurrency becomes much simpler."
21. Dynamic typing
22. Compiled
23. Influenced by Ruby
33. Pattern Matching
43. Pipe Operator
49. Lots more
50. iex
51. ExUnit
52. ExDoc
54. mix
55. mix format
56. OTP
57. Umbrela Apps
58. GenStage
59. Actor Model
60. Ecto
62. https://github.com/bignerdranch/why_elixir
63. Getting started
64. What is Elixir?
65. Erlang Virtual Machine low-latency concurrent distributed fault-tolerant scalability
66. Source: The Future of Computing Performance (2011)
67. Influenced by Ruby
71. https://github.com/bignerdranch/why_elixir
72. Elixir
73. Thank you all Join us on Slack |> kwelixir.ca
74. "I heard that Elixir enforces immutable data, What does it mean? How does it help with parallelism?" -- Someone
78. "Where to go to learn more about Elixir and ask questions?" -- Someone else
79. Links - https://elixirschool.com/en/ - https://kwelixir.ca/ - https://github.com/bignerdranch/why_elixir - https://blog.lelonek.me/elixir-on-erlang-vm-demystified-320557d09e1f - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5vJ1Y2j0uI (talk about Actor Model in Elixir by Michał Muskała) - https://www.brianstorti.com/the-actor-model/ - https://github.com/WhiteRookPL/learn-elixir-the-hard-way/blob/master/docs/concurrency-and-actor-model.md - https://elixir-companies.com/ - https://israilsdead.com/ - https://www.amberbit.com/blog/2015/6/14/closures-elixir-vs-ruby-vs-javascript/ - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29967086/are-elixir-variables-really-immutable
81. Thank you all Join us on Slack |> kwelixir.ca