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Let's talk about Elixir

Let's talk about Elixir

Introductory talk about Elixir, showcasing the core features and aims of the language.

Dimitrios Zorbas

May 11, 2016
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  1. is a functional, concurrent language designed for building scalable and

    maintainable applications. Dimitris Zorbas - Athens Ruby Meetup#26 The power of Erlang meets the joy of Ruby!
  2. Why Bother? ➔ Created by a rubyist aimed to rubyists

    ➔ Learn a new language every year ➔ Even Matz likes it! Dimitris Zorbas - Athens Ruby Meetup#26
  3. Really Why Bother? Seems to solve the core issues of

    Ruby (performance / scalability / maintainability), adopting a functional programming model, with a sweet Ruby-like syntax and cherries on top. Dimitris Zorbas - Athens Ruby Meetup#26
  4. Features Immutability Dimitris Zorbas - Athens Ruby Meetup#26 will_change =

    42 answer = fn -> will_change end will_change = 1337 answer.() # => 42
  5. Features Pipelines Dimitris Zorbas - Athens Ruby Meetup#26 [42, nil,

    1337, nil, 4] |> Enum.filter(&(&1)) |> Enum.map(&(&1 * 2)) |> Enum.sort |> Enum.join(", ") # => "84, 2674, 8"
  6. Features Pattern-Matching Dimitris Zorbas - Athens Ruby Meetup#26 Pattern matching

    is one of the cornerstones of an equational style of definition; more often than not it leads to a cleaner and more readily understandable definition than a style based on conditional equations. It also simplifies the process of reasoning formally about functions.
  7. Features Pattern-Matching Dimitris Zorbas - Athens Ruby Meetup#26 defmodule Speaker

    do def talk(:bob), do: "Hi, uncle Bob!" def talk(42), do: "Oh! the answer to life the universe and everything" def talk(n) when is_number(n), do: "You're an ordinary number" def talk(_), do: "I don't really know what to tell you" end
  8. Concurrency: Actor Model Features Dimitris Zorbas - Athens Ruby Meetup#26

    Processes (actors) are the center of computation and have mailboxes. They communicate by sending asynchronous messages to each other.
  9. Concurrency: Actor Model Features Dimitris Zorbas - Athens Ruby Meetup#26

    OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process and extreme late-binding of all things.
  10. Dimitris Zorbas - Athens Ruby Meetup#26 defmodule Speaker do import

    IO, only: [puts: 1] def new, do: spawn &start/0 def start do receive do {:answer, name} -> puts talk(name) _ -> puts "I don't know how to handle that" after 2000 -> puts "[#{inspect(self)}] Tell me something to do" end start end def talk(:bob), do: "Hi, uncle Bob!" def talk(42), do: "Oh! the answer to life the universe and everything" def talk(n) when is_number(n), do: "You're an ordinary number" def talk(_), do: "I don't really know what to tell you" end
  11. Features Async Tests defmodule SpeakerTest do use ExUnit.Case, async: true

    # Examples run concurrently test "talking to bob" do assert Speaker.talk(:bob) == "Hi, uncle Bob!" End test "talking to a stranger" do assert Speaker.talk(:voldemort) == "I don't really know what to tell you" end end Dimitris Zorbas - Athens Ruby Meetup#26
  12. Erlang Interoperability Features Dimitris Zorbas - Athens Ruby Meetup#26 Erlang

    / LFE (Lisp-Flavored-Erlang) / Elixir all run on BEAM OTP is directly available in Elixir
  13. Live Fast, Die Young Philosophy Dimitris Zorbas - Athens Ruby

    Meetup#26 • Failures are embraced and managed. Let it crash! • Failure is isolated in process level. No exceptions. • Failing fast is revealing. The system stays up. • Write Offensive Code
  14. Live Fast, Die Young Philosophy Dimitris Zorbas - Athens Ruby

    Meetup#26 The world is concurrent. Things in the world don't share data. Things communicate with messages. Things fail.