April 2018
Beginner to intermediate
406 pages
9h 33m
English
For us to really begin implementing anything of note that fully utilizes the model behind Elixir, we need to understand a little more about what the model actually looks like. The main idea behind how Elixir is able to function so well with is that BEAM, the underlying Erlang VM that powers everything Elixir, runs on a model called the Actor model. Actors are simply just single-threaded processes that can send and receive messages, either from themselves or from other processes. They end up getting their own isolated memory, which also means that it is safe to let processes run and die independently without worrying about how it's going to start affecting other processes in your system all time. Each ...