Elixir

Summary

A dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications, featuring immutability, pattern matching and running on the BEAM VM.

Paradigms

functional, concurrent, distributed, meta-programming, process-oriented

Domains

web development, distributed system, real-time computing

Key Features

first-class functions, pattern matching, macros, destructuring, string interpolation, modules, hot reload, REPL

Typing

dynamic system, structural typing, strong typing, partial inference, runtime checking, conservative type coercion, optional type annotations

Compilation

compiled, interpreted

Influenced By

Erlang, Ruby, Clojure

Ratings

File extensions

ex, exs

External Links

• Elixir official site
• Elixir jobs at Devjobsscanner
• r/elixir subreddit
• Trending GitHub repositories