Elixir School

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

Available in Việt ngữ, 汉语, Español, 日本語, Português and Bahasa Melayu

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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"

Recent Posts

Ecto query composition

25 Jul 2018

Follow along as we look at how to dynamically compose Ecto queries using pattern matching and reduction.

Configuration Demystified

17 Jul 2018

We attempt to clear up some confusion around configuration by looking at the different types, the roles they play, and a different approach we could take.

Reviewing Elixir in Action, Second Edition

18 Jun 2018

The first installment in our new series looking at, and reviewing, different learning materials available to the Elixir community.

Announcing the official Elixir School blog: Appendix. Follow along to learn more about Elixir, functional programming, in addition to tips and tricks you can take advantage of when building Elixir applications. Join us to learn more!

A look at Elixir 1.6

02 Apr 2018

Follow along as we take a peek at what’s inside the latest Elixir release. Learn more about the all new code formatter, exciting dynamic supervisors, and changes coming to your code editors that make working in Elixir even better!

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About Elixir

Ecto query composition

Configuration Demystified

Reviewing Elixir in Action, Second Edition

Just the beginning

A look at Elixir 1.6