Uploaded February 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Elixir is a concurrency-oriented programming language built atop the Erlang VM. Its syntax is very Ruby-influenced, and it takes some great features from the Python world as well. In this talk, I'll provide a quick introduction to the language. I'll provide just a quick overview of the language syntactically, as well as cover some areas where it differs wildly from Ruby.
Elixir is a concurrency-oriented programming language built atop the Erlang VM. Its syntax is very Ruby-influenced, and it takes some great features from the Python world as well. In this talk, I'll provide a quick introduction to the language. I'll provide just a quick overview of the language syntactically, as well as cover some areas where it differs wildly from Ruby.
