Why Learn Elixir?
Our future will be networked, everything will be connected. This means that
developers will need to undestand how to build scalable, fault-tolerant and
concurrent systems.
Elixir helps you do this.
The Joy of Elixir
Elixir is a new language built on the Erlang Beam, similar to how Clojure is built on the Java Virtual Machine.
It has a modern syntax, with programming concepts, and tools, cherry-picked from other languages, such as Ruby, Clojure, and Python, to name a few.
There is a strong focus on developer satisfaction, a friendly and vibrant community, which makes Elixir a joy to work with, and yet it still achieves 9 nines of availability.
What is Elixir Good For?
Elixir opens up functional programming, concurrency and fault-tolerance, this makes it ideally suited to building:
- Web sites that scale, using the Phoenix framework
- Micro services and APIs
- Backend servers
- IoT embedded devices, using the Nerves-Project
- Event driven & concurrent systems, e.g. Robotics
- Any system where you want to make use of ALL the cores of your CPU
