Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks

Wrapping Up Elixir

We’ve now put Elixir through its paces. You’ve seen what José has to say, and used a couple of the more sophisticated language features. In a few short days, you’ve built a few macros and even ramped up a simple monitored distributed application. Let’s look at where Elixir fits in the language spectrum.

Strengths

The hardware landscape, with increased emphasis on better networking, multicore architectures, and modern mobile computing, is increasingly driving modern programming. Our insatiable desire for more mobile applications and more power on the cloud will eventually require programmers to be concurrency experts. Elixir is extraordinarily well positioned to meet the hardware challenges.

In the Elm chapter, we mentioned ...