A Taste of Elixir - The language of the future you can have today
summary
Concrete claims and demos: gen_server and supervisor primitives run tiny BEAM processes under 1KB and restart crashed workers automatically (observed restart in under ~10ms); a Phoenix case study shrinks app servers from about 15–20 to 2 and trims team size to ~25% of prior headcount; Phoenix channels hit 2 million websocket connections on one server; tools shown include LiveBook, LiveView and live_view_native, NX for ML, Fly.io for global deploys, and a working counter demo that survives crashes and auto‑recovers.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Elixir and its creator
- 6:50Why Elixir stands out
- 12:23Basic syntax and pattern matching
- 18:52Recursion and processes
- 22:07OTP and fault tolerance
- 27:11GenServer and supervisor demo
- 32:37Elixir tooling
- 36:08Phoenix framework
- 41:29Plug and Phoenix internals
- 43:35Phoenix Channels
- 45:18LiveView
- 49:17LiveView Native
- 51:23Other use cases and closing
