Is anyone finding it difficult learning Elixir or Phoenix?

Hi @nexar, I found the first half of Dave Thomas book Programming Elixir (Pragprog) invaluable as a Ruby developer to initially “get it”. As @peerreynders alluded to it is best done from the ground up focusing on data structures, immutability, recursion, and pattern matching. It took me a little time to think in terms of map, filter, reduce and recursion instead of imperative for loops relying on mutable index but in his book he has a lot of exercises for each chapter which really helped speed up the learning process.

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