A narrative about choosing the right tool for the right job.
This talk is about Elixir – a functional, meta-programming aware language built on top of the Erlang VM.
I introduce some of Elixir's more interesting language features. Then I will demonstrate some of the features that Erlang gives Elixir for free, such as the OTP framework, that let's you build fault tolerant and distributed systems.
So come along and join me to experience programming joy.
Elixir provides the joy and productivity of Ruby with the concurrency and fault-tolerance of Erlang. Together, we'll take a guided tour through the language, going from the very basics to macros and distributed programming. Along the way, we'll see how Elixir embraces concurrency and how we can construct self-healing programs that restart automatically on failure. Attendees should leave with a great head-start into Elixir, some minor language envy, and a strong desire to continue exploration.
