Elixir - An introduction

I gave this talk at the 3rd issue of MagConf, an internal conference of Magnetis. In this presentation I explain my motivations to learn and use Elixir, the basics of the language and why we should start using it at Magnetis and beyond.

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1. Elixir an introduction Philip Sampaio - @philipsampaio
2. why
3. Why I start using it
5. My first open source contribution :)
6. I was not ready
7. v0.5.0
8. Elixir was not ready
9. in the meanwhile…
12. finally!
13. why
14. why start using it?
17. a lot of clients
18. –Joel Spolsky - http://bit.ly/1dhQr8g “It’s harder to read code than to write it.”
19. it’s easy to read
20. Here comes an image of the fibonacci formula.
21. –Dave Thomas, author of Programming Elixir “Programming should be about transforming data”
23. fun
24. functional
25. fault-tolerant
26. productivity
27. what
28. types, syntax and features
29. types
30. numbers
32. 3.14
33. “string”
34. :atom
35. true, false
36. [42, 3.14]
37. {:ok, “content”}
38. %{:type => “map" }
39. fn(n) -> n + 32 end
40. #PID<0.101.0>
41. many more types
42. types, syntax and features
43. syntax
45. functions
48. modules
52. pipes
56. control-flow
60. processes
71. types, syntax and features
72. features
73. IEx
74. interactive shell
79. mix
80. build tool / task runner
86. hex
87. packages repository
89. publish packages
91. OTP
92. Open Telecom Plataform
93. design principles
94. libraries
95. GenServer
97. Supervisor
99. when
100. when to use Elixir?
101. every internet related project
102. whenever you need reliable software
103. fast systems
104. concurrent systems
105. … when?
106. now!
107. • Getting Started: http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/ introduction.html • Elixir Radar: http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/ 2015/01/introducing-elixir-radar-the-weekly-email- newsletter-about-elixir/ • Elixir Conf 2014 talks: http://confreaks.tv/events/ elixirconf2014 • Elixir Conf EU 2015 talks: http://bit.ly/elixirconf- eu-2015-videos
109. Thanks! Starts with the motivation Then go to system using it Then go to characteristics @philipsampaio