What makes Elixir great:
A newbie's perspective

Elixir is a functional programming language that runs on Erlang VM

Elixir is a functional programming language that runs on Erlang VM

Elixir is a functional programming language that runs on Erlang VM

Basic Types

• Booleans
• Atoms
• Strings
• Lists
• Tuples
• Maps
• Anonymous Functions

Pattern Matching

iex> x = 1
1
iex> 1 = x
1
iex> 2 = x
** (MatchError) no match of right hand side value: 1

iex> "HELLO WORLD" = "hello world" |> String.upcase()

Pipeline

Operators

iex> add = fn num when is_integer(num) -> num + 1 end
#Function<6.54118792/1 in :erl_eval.expr/5>
iex> add.(1)
2
iex> add.("1")
** (FunctionClauseError) no function clause matching in :erl_eval.....

Guard

Clauses

Recursions

“To iterate is human, to recurse is divine.”

(L. Peter Deutsch)

Macros

“With great power comes great responsibility.”

(Uncle Ben)

Processes

"Let it crash"

• Spawn Links
• Tasks
• Agents
• GenServers

Documentation

Talk about productivity

• Doctests

Mix

Project Management and build tool for Elixir.

ExUnit

Testing Framework for Elixir

Hex

Phoenix

Ecto

Plug

IN OTHER WORDS...

THANK YOU!