Elixir School

Lessons about the Elixir programming language, inspired by Twitter’s Scala School.

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About Elixir

“Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications.” — elixir-lang.org

Elixir leverages the battle tested ErlangVM to build distributed and fault-tolerant systems with low-latency out of the box.

Features:

Scalable
Fault-tolerant
Functional Programming
Extensible

iex> defmodule Hello do
...>   def print(lang \\ :en)
...>   def print(:de), do: "Hallo Welt"
...>   def print(:en), do: "Hello World"
...>   def print(:es), do: "Hola Mundo"
...>   def print(:ru), do: "Привет мир"
...> end

iex> Hello.print()
"Hello World!"
iex> Hello.print(:es)
"Hola Mundo"
iex> Hello.print(:ru)
"Привет мир"

About Elixir

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