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Nicolas ModrzykBuilding Telegram Botshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4197-4_10

10. Week 10: Elixir

Nicolas Modrzyk1 
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
 

Clarity in my cup. Transparency of my soul. Lucidity of myself.

Elixir of the ages. Tea makes us all sages.

—Dharlene Marie Fahl

Elixir ( https://elixir-lang.org/ ) is a programming language that has a syntax very similar to Ruby but runs on the highly distributed Erlang VM.

The Erlang VM was developed by Ericsson and has been around for ages, since 1986 to be exact, and over time has proven its resilience across heterogeneous and highly concurrent environments. Usually, Erlang is used for programs that require the following:

  • Distribution

  • Fault-tolerance

  • (Soft) real-time capabilities ...

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