💧 Elixir lang

Last updated Jan 18, 2023

• Lang
• Elixir

just pieces of information not a article.

• Platform features
  • Scalability - process: lightweight threads of execution
  • Fault-tolerance - Supervisor : describe how to restart parts of your system when things go awry (details needs…)
• Language features
  • Functional programming;
  • Pattern matching;
• Extensibility and DSLs
  • Elixir’s test framework called ExUnit
  • Elixir to write SQL queries
  • compiling a subset of Elixir to the GPU
• Tooling features: IEx (Elixir’s interactive shell), mix, Hex package manager, hosts documentation, … etc

• https://github.com/kvakvs/beam-wisdoms - containing pieces of information and knowledge about BEAM Virtual machine - visit: http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se
• https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook - A description of the Erlang Runtime System ERTS and the virtual Machine BEAM.
• Webserver Benchmark: Erlang vs Go vs Java vs NodeJS
• How does the BEAM VM (Elixir/Erlang) compare to the JVM (Java)?
• Why should we “reinvent the wheel” by using Akka with Java if we have Elixir/Erlang ready for production?

for my side, I use Nix package manager to start envrionments for Elixir