Elixir for Rubyists

A short exploration of the Elixir programming language tailored to the Ruby community.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfJprZkqBGA

Transcript

1. elixir for Rubyists mfilej
2. Erlang scalable, reliable systems
3. Erlang constantly provide service
4. Erlang with little or no downtime
5. 1980s telecom company needs
6. 1980s (still, a general- purpose language)
7. Turns out Modern web apps are a good fit, too.
16. You get the point.
17. elixir
18. Newer language for the Erlang VM
19. Write in Elixir Benefit from the Erlang ecosystem
20. Modern syntax Cleaner, compact, and expressive
21. dynamic functional language scalable maintainable apps
22. Functional
23. Concurrent
24. Extensible
25. Compiled
26. What’s in it for a Rubyist?
27. Familiarity
30. José Valim
32. Expression Everything is an
33. Implicit returns
34. Enumerable
35. iex (irb)
36. Alright, but Ruby already offers all of this …
37. Pattern matching
39. MATCH OPERATOR
41. TUPLE
42. ATOM
43. SUCCESS FAILURE
45. Immutable data
46. Pipe operator
49. Ew.
52. |>
53. protocols
54. streams protocols
55. streams protocols comprehensions
56. guards streams protocols comprehensions
58. [info] GET / [info] Processing by Testin.PageCo Parameters: %{"format" => "html" Pipelines: [:browser] [info] Sent 200 in 205µs
59. [info] GET / [info] Processing by Testin.PageCo Parameters: %{"format" => "html" Pipelines: [:browser] [info] Sent 200 in 205µs LOL MICROSECONDS
60. Thank you. mfilej