A brief history of Elixir

A brief history of the programming language Elixir and how it come about from the perspective of a googling rubyist.

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1. by Magnus Rex, magnus@rexikan.se, @rexikan A Brief History of Elixir
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language) 1986 Erlang by Joe Armstrong
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language) Designed by Ericsson for AXE digital telephone exchange
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language) Supports distributed, fault-tolerant, soft- real-time, non-stop applications
5. Also desired features for internet services and applications
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language) Open sourced 1998
7. http://pragprog.com/book/jaerlang/programming-erlang 2007
8. https://github.com/tarcieri/reia - http://reia-lang.org/ 2008 Reija by Tony Arcieri
9. https://github.com/tarcieri/reia - http://reia-lang.org/ “Ruby-like hybrid OOP/functional programming language for BEAM, the Erlang VM”
10. http://rubyonrails.org/core José Valim Rails core team member
11. https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir 2011-01-09 First commit to Elixir by José Valim
12. http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2011/06/why-im-stopping-work-on-reia.html https://github.com/celluloid/celluloid 2011-06-29 Tony announces that he discontinues Reia as it is superseded by Elixir (but writes Celluloid)
13. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/elixir-lang-core/sjIzrH98h0w/G0ZD8_RNlOUJ Fall 2011 José tries to use Elixir on production project. He isn’t too happy about it.
14. https://github.com/josevalim/lego-lang Together with Yehuda Katz José experimented with Lego
15. https://github.com/josevalim/lego-lang “The Lego kernel language is a minimal specification that provides a very simple but elegant syntax in order to work as building blocks for other languages.”
16. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/elixir-lang-core/sjIzrH98h0w/G0ZD8_RNlOUJ Then after playing with Clojure and Loke he rethinks Elixir
17. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/elixir-lang-core/sjIzrH98h0w/G0ZD8_RNlOUJ 2011-12-23 Elixir v0.4 announced “I have pushed to master a new Elixir version. You will find out it is a rework from scratch“
18. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/elixir-lang-core/sjIzrH98h0w/G0ZD8_RNlOUJ 2013-08-03 v0.10.1 released
19. http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html 2013-05-31 Joe Armstrong blogpost “This has been my first week with Elixir, and I’m pretty excited”
20. Books are being written
21. Still not v1.0 but strong momentum!