Elixir 101 - Speaker Deck

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Elixir

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Getting started

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What is Elixir?

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The problem

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Source: The Future of Computing Performance (2011)

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Source: The Future of Computing Performance (2011)

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Source: The Future of Computing Performance (2011)

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to run code faster you need to run it concurrently

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Erlang Virtual Machine low-latency concurrent distributed fault-tolerant scalability

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Elixir

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Getting started

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What is Elixir?

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Functional language

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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."

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Dynamic typing

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Compiled

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Influenced by Ruby

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Pattern Matching

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Lots more

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mix

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mix format

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OTP

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Umbrela Apps

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Actor Model

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https://github.com/bignerdranch/why_elixir

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Getting started

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What is Elixir?

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Erlang Virtual Machine low-latency concurrent distributed fault-tolerant scalability

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Source: The Future of Computing Performance (2011)

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Influenced by Ruby

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https://github.com/bignerdranch/why_elixir

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Elixir

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Thank you all Join us on Slack |> kwelixir.ca

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"I heard that Elixir enforces immutable data, What does it mean? How does it help with parallelism?" -- Someone

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"Where to go to learn more about Elixir and ask questions?" -- Someone else

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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