Elixir

Elixir is a programming language created in 2011 by José Valim.

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...

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the Elixir website
the Elixir Wikipedia page
Elixir is developed on GitHub and has 20,394 stars
Elixir is backed by plataformatec
PLDB estimates there are currently 214 job openings for Elixir programmers.
file extensions for Elixir include ex, exs, eex and leex
Elixir is written in Elixir
the Elixir team is on Twitter
Check out the 211 Elixir meetup groups on Meetup.com.
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
Indeed.com has 214 matches for "elixir developer".
See also: Erlang, Ruby, Clojure, LFE, Unicode, UTF-8
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Example code from Riju:

IO.puts("Hello, world!")

Example code from hello-world:

#!/usr/bin/env elixir
IO.puts "Hello World"

Example code from the Hello World Collection:

# Hello world in Elixir

defmodule HelloWorld do
  IO.puts "Hello, World!"
end

Example code from Linguist:

%{"cowboy": {:hex, :cowboy, "1.0.0"},
  "cowlib": {:hex, :cowlib, "1.0.1"},
  "hackney": {:hex, :hackney, "0.14.3"},
  "hound": {:hex, :hound, "0.6.0"},
  "httpoison": {:hex, :httpoison, "0.5.0"},
  "idna": {:hex, :idna, "1.0.1"},
  "phoenix": {:hex, :phoenix, "0.10.0"},
  "plug": {:hex, :plug, "0.11.1"},
  "poison": {:hex, :poison, "1.3.1"},
  "ranch": {:hex, :ranch, "1.0.0"}}

Example code from Wikipedia:

task = Task.async fn -> perform_complex_action() end
other_time_consuming_action()
Task.await task

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Binary Literals	✓	# 0b[01]+
Integers	✓	# \d(_?\d)*
Floats	✓	# \d(_?\d)\.\d(_?\d)([eE][-+]?\d(_?\d)*)?
Hexadecimals	✓	# 0x[\da-fA-F]+
Octals	✓	# 0o[0-7]+
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		IO.puts
Message Passing	✓
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Semantic Indentation	✓
File Imports	✓	# 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
Comments	✓	# this is a comment
MultiLine Comments	ϴ

Trending Elixir repos on GitHub

repo	stars	description
phoenix_live_view	2197	"Rich real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML"
elixir	15832	"Elixir is a dynamic functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications"
ecto	4322	A database wrapper and language integrated query for Elixir
phoenix	14194	Productive. Reliable. Fast.
absinthe	2846	The GraphQL toolkit for Elixir
horde	569	Horde is a distributed Supervisor and Registry backed by DeltaCrdt
teslamate	136	A self-hosted data logger for your Tesla 🚘
blockscout	639	Blockchain explorer for Ethereum based network and a tool for inspecting and analyzing EVM based blockchains.
phoenix_live_view_example	273

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