LoneStarRuby Conf 2013 - Elixir: Power of Erlang, Joy of Ruby by Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas
Elixir: Power of Erlang, Joy of Ruby

I'm a language nut. I love trying them out, and I love thinking about their design and implementation. (I know, it's sad.)

Fast forward 15 years. All that time I'd been looking for something new that gave me the same feeling.

Then I came across Elixir, a language by José Valim, that puts a humane, Ruby-like syntax on the Erlang VM.

Now I'm dangerous. I want other people to see just how great this is. I want to evangelize. I won't try to convert you away from Ruby. But I might just persuade you to add Elixir to your toolset.

So come along and let me show you the things that I think make Elixir a serious alternative for writing highly reliable, scalable, and performant server code.

And, more important, let me show you some fun stuff.

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[RubyLoveIO]

Damn you Jose Valim! Damn you for making such an elegant language that looks enough like Ruby that I now want to abandon her for the new hotness of immutable pattern matching :*(

Before now I thought performant languages couldn't be beautiful and vice-versa.

[YitzhakBarGeva]

You're probably in a tiny minority, YoLinYo. Hoardes of highly talented programmers think otherwise.

[hum]

worst audio quality every, but talk is worth suffering from it.