AstonJ

AstonJ

Describe Elixir in one sentence

Was thinking about this the other day - how would you describe Elixir in a single sentence? :upside_down_face:

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amarandon

amarandon

Elixir - concurrency for humans

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Emil

Emil

The boring answer…

Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications.
https://elixir-lang.org/

AstonJ

AstonJ

Here are a couple that spring to mind
(and that I probably heard in a talk or on the forum at some point)…

  • Elixir - the power of Erlang, the beauty of Ruby

  • Elixir - an accessible Erlang

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