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Programmer Passport: Elixir
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Programmer Passport: Elixir

by Bruce Tate
June 2022
Intermediate to advanced
130 pages
2h 45m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Beyond Erlang

José was a leader in the community supporting Ruby on Rails, one of the most successful web development frameworks ever built. José was an author, core team member, and framework developer in that Ruby space with a large following, but he was growing increasingly frustrated with some of the problems he encountered related to scalability and programming abstractions. Ruby was an excellent language, but not appropriate for the types of problems José was solving most frequently:

  • The Rails framework wasn’t explicit, so it was sometimes difficult to debug and extend.
  • The Ruby language didn’t support concurrency well, an increasingly important language feature.
  • Ruby applications didn’t scale particularly well for many users.

In 2011, Elixir ...

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