What This Book Is Not
This book is not a reference manual. I’m going to be using languages that might be new to you, such as Elixir and Clojure. Because this is a book about concurrency, not languages, there are going to be some aspects of these languages that I’ll use without explaining in detail. Hopefully everything will be clear from context, but I’m relying on you to persevere if you need to explore some language feature further to understand fully. You might want to read along with a web browser handy so you can consult the language’s documentation if you need to.
Nor is this an installation manual. To run the example code, you’re going to need to install and run various tools—the README files included in the example code contain hints, ...
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