This week we talk with José Valim about Elixir! We learned about the early days of José’s start as a programmer. José took us back to the beginning of Elixir and shared why Erlang got him so excited, we broke down features of the language, we talked about functional programming, concurrency, developing for multi-core systems, we talked about the Elixir community, the future of Phoenix, Ecto, and so much more.
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Show notes and links
José Valim (@josevalim) on Twitter
José Valim (@josevalim) on GitHub
Elixir
Plataformatec
#147: Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord – The Changelog
Elixir v1.2 and Ecto v1.1 · Issue #339 · thechangelog/ping
Ruby on Rails
plataformatec/devise: Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.
Erlang Programming Language
jashkenas (Jeremy Ashkenas)
jashkenas/coffeescript: Unfancy JavaScript
A Week with Elixir – Joe Armstrong says, “this is good shit.”
José Valim at Strange Loop 2012 – Elixir: Modern Programming for the Erlang VM
Programming Ruby “The Pickaxe” by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andy Hunt
#191: Elm and Functional Programming with Richard Feldman – The Changelog
elixir-lang/ecto – Elixir
The Pragmatic Bookshelf “Productive |> Reliable |> Fast” by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and José Valim
Introduction – Elixir
Hero: Guy L. Steele, Jr. – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elixir Radar: the weekly email newsletter about Elixir – Plataformatec
Exception tracking and logging from Elixir to Rollbar (elixir-addicts/rollbax)
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