elixir

Note: This article has not been updated since June 2016. These are the basics which I tried to cover when I started exploring the language

Real World Applications of Elixir/Erlang

• Telecom
• Bidding - Football
• High Speed Transactions like NASDAQ / Stock Exchanges
• WhatsApp

What is a Functional Programming Language?

What is Concurrent?

What is Erlang?

What is Elixir?

Elixir[src] is a functional, concurrent and general purpose programming language created by José Valim which is built on top of Erlang VM.Erlang is a functional programming language was a propietary language built by Ericsson, was later opensourced in 1998. The first version was released in 1986 by Joe Armstrong. Erlang supports hot swapping which means that code can be changed without stopping a system. Erlang systems provide nine nine’s uptime i.e. 99.9999999

My Introduction to Elixir/Erlang

When I first told a friend that I looked at Elixir, he made me watch this video. Lets watch The point I had to take away was - Erlang supports hot swapping of code and can be re-tried in case of failures.

Getting Started with Basics

Documentation

• Official Website w/ Getting Started

• Documentation

• https://howistart.org/posts/elixir/1

• https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/elixir/

• reading docs on kindle

Books

• Elixir in Action from Manning
• The Little Elixir And OTP Guidebook from Manning
• Programming Elixir by PragProg
• Programming Phoenix by PragProg
• ElixirCookbook from PacktPub
• Metaprogramming Elixir by PragProg
• Introducing Elixir from OReilly - Too basic stuff (almost a clone of Introducing Erlang)
• Études for Elixir - Free

Most of the above resources are available in Safari

Videos

• Elixir Sips
• Daily Drip
• Ex Casts
• http://www.redfour.io/

Cheatsheets

• PragProg CheatSheet
• Style Guide - https://github.com/niftyn8/elixir_style_guide

Editor Bundles

• TextMate
• vim
• Emacs

Tutorials / Practicing

• Elixir School
• Exercism.io
• Elixir Koans
• Elixir Online
• http://variousandsundry.com/cs/core-elixir-index/

Podcasts

• the default Phoenix app when it boots uses about 15 megabytes of memorysource - read/listen through

(One of my favourite episodes)

Awesome List

• Awesome Elixir
• https://beta.hexfaktor.org/
• https://elixirnation.io/

Forums

• Elixir Forum
• https://elixir.school/
• Slack Group

Newsletters

• https://app.rdstation.com.br/mail/c18fd65d-de74-4506-8992-6c65995809c6
• http://elixirstatus.com/
• http://elixirdigest.net/digests/58

Conference Videos

• Elixir Conf 2014
• Elixir Conf 2015
• Elixir Daze 2016 - March 16, 2016
• Erlang Factory Keynote Phoenix & Elm - March 10, 2016

Others

• Joe Armstrong’s Take on Elixir (2013)

• Elixir/Erlang List on Twitter

• A small Rails App moved to Phoenix. Their thoughts on moving to Phoenix

• How Erlang Does Scheduling Based on Erlang R15

• http://nerves-project.org/

• http://www.redfour.io/

• http://www.tryerlang.org/

• https://twitter.com/mikrofusion/status/755798338331512833

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/elixir?sort=votes&pageSize=50

• http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2015/08/working-with-ecto-associations-and-embeds

• https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir

• https://github.com/seven1m/30-days-of-elixir

• https://github.com/elixir-lang/ecto

• http://www.theerlangelist.com/

• http://erlangcentral.org/wiki/index.php?title=Functionally_Programming_in_Elixir

• http://elixirpipe.com/

• https://vimeo.com/108441214 - general video

• write about integrating - https://github.com/Cobenian/raygun

Phoenix (The Web Application Library)

• http://elviovicosa.com/books/versioned-apis-with-phoenix - free ebook
• https://www.learnphoenix.io/
• Phoenix Screencasts
• http://www.sitepoint.com/phoenix-for-railsies/

Intermediate Elixir

• Writing Libraries/Maintainable code - Understanding Pluggable Interfaces in Elixir

Advanced Elixir

• http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024149.do

Book at Oreilly

Introducing Elixir

Review of Introducing Elixir

• Well-written

• Helpful examples

• Easy to understand

• Read through “Other Resources” from the ‘Preface’ before getting your hands on this book

• This book is ideal for developers/students planning to start with the language.

• Great introduction to the language syntax, programs in Elixir

• Broad information about all types of basic data structures used and common patterns applied.

• Covered pitfalls along with the examples

• See Études for Elixir for exercises.

• Also, The TOC is similar to Introducing Erlang

More links to get started with Elixir

• Source - https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir by José Valim
• Getting Started - http://elixir-lang.org/getting_started/1.html
• Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixir_(programming_language)
• History of releases - http://elixir-lang.org/blog/categories.html
• Joe Armstrong’s experience with Elixir - https://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html
• PragProg Book on Elixir by Dave Thomas