Elixir hasn’t either. It’s just a binary of bytes which happen to be printable when interpreted as unicode code points.
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OvermindDL1
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rvirding
Creator of Erlang
NobbZ
As in network protocols or as in elixir protocols?
So far I hadn’t had to implement one of the latter for binaries/strings.
But if indeed you mean the network stuff, of course I use that for that is appropriate in the context of the protocol to decode.
But to be honest, most of the time I just send term_to_binary over the wire and use some deserialiser at the receivers end or binary_to_term…
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OvermindDL1
Network protocols! Bitstring syntax in network protocols in Erlang is an utter bliss compared to any other language I’ve used! ^.^
Like parse out the TCPv4 packet format from scratch, just for fun, then try it in any other language. ^.^
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rvirding
Creator of Erlang
Yes, that’s a classic. I was planning to also show TCP packet but that was a bit too simple to really make an impression. 
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NobbZ
I was able to nearly convience some co-students of mine to take a closer look at elixir last year, when I showed them a talk about HTTP2-Parsing via binary-pattern-matching. Finally they have then been scared away by the word “functional”. Our introductionary course uses haskell and sadly it scares people away from functional programming instead of luring them 
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alisinabh
Binary pattern matching was the coolest thing i learned about Elixir.
I simply made scary binary structures FUN! 
I really agree with this. You can even play with media files structures and have fun.
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