Strange Leaflet about Elixir
WELCOME TO ELIXIR!
ELIXIR is a language of adventure, danger, and low cunning. In it you will explore some of the most amazing territory ever seen by mortals. No computer should be without one!
Eight pages about what makes Elixir so much fun: processes that run on their own, the BEAM that runs them, data that never changes, GenServers that hold state anyway, pattern matching, and loops that turn out to be recursion. I wrote every page as a Livebook first, so if you'd rather poke at the code than read about it, the Livebooks are all here.
Contents
- page 1Learn how Elixir is a language of independently running processes
- page 2What is the BEAM and why is it so awesome?
- page 3What Elixir processes are, what's inside one, and how to send one a message
- page 4Using Elixir processes to handle asynchronous work
- page 5Immutable data and why it's awesome
- page 6How an Elixir GenServer process manages state
- page 7Elixir pattern matching is awesome
- page 8Looping without mutable data means recursion