Elixir

Elixir is a pl created in 2011 by José Valim.

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Elixir is a functional, concurrent, general-purpose programming language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM). Elixir builds on top of Erlang and shares the same abstractions for building distributed, fault-tolerant applications. Elixir also provides a productive tooling and an extensible design. Read more on Wikipedia...

• the Elixir website
• the Elixir Wikipedia page
• Elixir is developed on GitHub and has 20,394 stars
• There are at least 89,242 Elixir repos on GitHub
• PLDB estimates there are currently 214 job openings for Elixir programmers.
• file extensions for Elixir include ex, exs and eex
• Elixir is written in Elixir
• the Elixir team is on Twitter
• The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 5k users using Elixir in 7k repos on GitHub
• Check out the 211 Elixir meetup groups on Meetup.com.
• There are 23,468 members in the Elixir subreddit
• There are 173 Project Euler users using Elixir
• In the 2021 StackOverflow developer survey Elixir programmers reported a median salary of $80,077. 2% of respondents reported using Elixir. 1,438 programmers reported using Elixir, and 3,374 said they wanted to use it
• Explore Elixir snippets on Rosetta Code
• Elixir appears in the TIOBE Index
• There is an Ubuntu package for Elixir
• Here is a Elixir LSP implementation
• There is a Monaco package for syntax highlighting Elixir
• Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Elixir
• GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Elixir
• Elixir appears in the Quine Relay project
• There is 1 Jupyter Kernel for Elixir
• There is a central package repository for Elixir
• Indeed.com has 214 matches for "elixir developer".
• See also: Erlang, Ruby, Clojure, LFE, Unicode, UTF-8
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Keywords in Elixir

after and catch do else end false fn in nil not or rescue true when

Language features

δ = 0.00001

raise "oops, something went wrong"

def fib(0), do: 1
def fib(1), do: 1
def fib(n) when n >= 2, do: fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)

def abs(number) when number > 0, do: number
def abs(number), do: -number

template = """
This is the first line.
This is the second line.
This is the third line.
"""

seven = 3 + 4

1.23e45

fn -> IO.puts("hello world") end

"Elixir" |> String.graphemes() |> Enum.frequencies()

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Stream.html

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Macro.html

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Protocol.html

1..3

%{key: "value"}

# 0b[01]+

# \d(_?\d)*

# \d(_?\d)*\.\d(_?\d)*([eE][-+]?\d(_?\d)*)?

# 0x[\da-fA-F]+

# 0o[0-7]+

"Hello world"

my_list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

~r/integer: \d+/

send(pid, :ping)

# A comment

def multiply(a, b \\ 1) do
  a * b
end

if true do
  IO.puts("Hello world")
end

name = "John"

# Alias the module so it can be called as Bar instead of Foo.Bar
alias Foo.Bar, as: Bar

# Require the module in order to use its macros
require Foo

# Import functions from Foo so they can be called without the `Foo.` prefix
import Foo

# Invokes the custom code defined in Foo as an extension point
use Foo

# this is a comment

File.write!("helloworld.txt", "Hello, world!\n")

#!/usr/bin/env elixir

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