They are technically functions / macros but they have the infix notation enabled for them.
You can just use them like this:
Kernel.+(2, 3)
dimitarvp
forestial
Actually the -> is first mentioned (as @mudasobwa alluded to) in the Anonymous Functions section above, and I’d suggest that a sentence there to explain what it means would also be helpful.
More broadly, it would be helpful to new users if things like this -> had names to be more suggestive of what they do. After looking at this for a while I formed the notion that the -> “injects” the arguments into the function; would it make sense to call this the “injector”? (I suppose that will outrage experienced Elixir users 
).
(Javascript seems to use => to mean something similar. There, they call it the “arrow function” which is not a very useful name; it says nothing about what actually happens).
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forestial
Another comment, again made from my ‘Elixir newbie’ perspective:
The section titled “Recursive Functions” on the “Loops” page is of course extremely important. I think it deserves a bit more explanation to help the new user. I was able to puzzle it out eventually but there is a lot to understand there and I think many would struggle with it. I think that pattern is common in functional languages but much less so in procedural ones, where many new users may be coming from.
As an aside, the defp keyword appears there but it also needs some explanation. In fact it was already used on the “Control Flow” page, but it was not explained there either.
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shishini
i think it would be nice to add windows installation instruction
you can easily install erlang using winget
winget install Erlang.ErlangOTP
Unfortunately elixir is not packaged for winget yet (maybe one day)
but the packages are in this link
so still very easy to install
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rhcarvalho
Watched the intro video, as usual very well produced – thanks @PJUllrich! 
From watching the intro I feel a bit confused that this site tries to fit two audiences that might be at odds: 1/ short high level intro for newcomers, 2/ collection of guides for more advanced topics like ETS, DETS, community libraries, etc.
What stands out as prominently distinctive is the example-based approach . I appreciate that and I think many other people will too.
If I got it right, the tech stack is the same as the official docs? Did you consider adding to it?
Is there some other thread where adding LiveBook-based examples to the official docs is/was discussed? It could help with discoverability.
Thanks again @PJUllrich for you countless contributions 
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PJUllrich
Author of Building Table Views with Phoenix LiveView
The section titled “Recursive Functions” on the “Loops” page is of course extremely important. I think it deserves a bit more explanation to help the new user
Thank you @forestial. I added a small explainer to the recursive loop section.
@shishini thank you for that suggestion but until we have an “official” way to install Elixir on Windows, I prefer to link to the official docs on how to install this stuff. I use asdf myself on macOS, so I can monitor if that installer works, but I have no way to check whether e.g. winget continues to work and don’t want to advertise an outdated installation process on RunElixir. I’d rather leave it to the official docs to keep these things up-to-date.
If I got it right, the tech stack is the same as the official docs? Did you consider adding to it?
Yes, @rhcarvalho RunElixir uses the ex_doc but I think it should stay “it’s own thing” for now because it’s an opinionated approach to getting started with Elixir and the official Elixir docs already have a “Getting started” section.
Is there some other thread where adding LiveBook-based examples to the official docs is/was discussed? It could help with discoverability.
Not that I know, but there’s https://notes.club/ and somewhere there’s an awesome GitHub repo will all kinds of Livebook examples. I couldn’t find it quickly though, so if somebody has a link to it, that’d be much appreciated.
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LostKobrakai
harrisi
Elixir itself provides Windows binaries as well. As does Erlang. As of OTP 27.1 the Windows Erlang installer doesn’t even need admin privileges, which is great!
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