Introducing Elixir
Getting Started in Functional Programming
by Simon St Laurent, J. David Eisenberg · first published 2014
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Introducing Elixir by Simon St Laurent is coming out soon. I read a pre-release version and it is exactly what you want.
on “A Week with Elixir” ↗I'm puzzled by this. I'm reading /Introducing Elixir, 2nd Edition/ online right now in Firefox on a Mac, and it looks fantastic. Beautifully formatted.
on “O’Reilly Media has stopped retailing books directly on its ecommerce store” ↗…addition to syntax, improves on some aspects of Erlang which make newcomers uncomfortable, adds more powerful metaprogramming utilities and adds modern features like browsing the docs from REPL. I found "Introducing Elixir" (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030584.do) rather good as a starting point and you can do quite a lot with it. But, in the end, you have to at least know how to read Erlang docs, because Elixir…
on “Macro-Benchmark with Django, Flask and AsyncIO” ↗…Thomas from Pragmatic Programmers, so when I heard him raving about Elixir, I had to give it a try. I like it so far. Good overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hht9s6nAAx8 Good books: "Introducing Elixir - Getting Started in Functional Programming" http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030584.do "Elixir in Action" http://www.manning.com/juric/ "Programming Elixir" https://pragprog.com/book/elixir/programming-elixir
on “Elixir 1.0.5 released” ↗Recently read: Programming Elixir - Dave Thomas Introducing Elixir - Simon St. Laurent and J. David Eisenberg The Swift Programming Language - Apple Currently reading: Functional Programming in Swift - Chris Eidhof, Florian Kugler, and Wouter Swierstra Recently purchased…
on “Ask HN: What is HN reading?” ↗Might be worth it to mention some Erlang books. I've heard many have benefited from Programming Erlang. Also, stronger curation—Introducing Elixir is kinda old right? I'd put Programming Elixir instead of it.
on “List of Elixir books” ↗