num_pages: 287
description: You want to explore functional programming but are put off by the academic feel (tell me about monads just one more time). You know you need concurrent applications but also know these are almost impossible to get right. Meet Elixir a functional concurrent language built on the rock-solid Erlang VM. Elixirs pragmatic syntax and built-in support for metaprogramming will make you productive and keep you interested for the long haul. This book is the introduction to Elixir for experienced programmers.Maybe you need something thats closer to Ruby but with a battle-proven environment thats unrivaled for massive scalability concurrency distribution and fault tolerance. Maybe the time is right for the Next Big Thing. Maybe its Elixir.
language: English
title: Programming Elixir: Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun
publisher: The Pragmatic Bookshelf