Elixir v1.0.4 ships with two new important options for new projects. If you generate a new application with mix new, you will see in your mix.exs: [build_embedded: Mix.env == :prod, start_permanent: Mix.env == :prod] Although those options were originally meant to be in Elixir v1.1, we have decided to bring them into v1.0.4 and do … »

Tl;DR: We’re launching a weekly email newsletter about Elixir. It’s called Elixir Radar. We would like to invite you to subscribe to it. A little bit of Elixir’s history You may know José Valim. You may know Elixir. You may know Plataformatec. But you may not know the story of how Elixir was created and … »

When you are new to any language, you probably want to run some existing code just to see how it works. Achieving success while trying new things is important, because it helps fueling your interest. The number of code examples in Elixir is increasing, but sometimes you will have to read some Erlang code. Recently, … »

In Go Concurrency Patterns talk, Google I/O 2012, presenter Rob Pike demos some great concurrency features from Go, like channels and Go routines, and how it can be used to build fast, replicated and robust software. Concurrency patterns is a very interesting topic but there was one statement in special that got me thinking: “The … »

Functional languages are typically great languages for writing assertive code and Elixir is no exception. In this blog post, I would like to discuss some anti-patterns I have seen in Elixir code and how to rewrite them in a way to make the best of Elixir. Pattern matching Imagine you have a string with format … »

Swift has been recently announced by Apple and I have been reading the docs and playing with the language out of curiority. I was pleasantly surprised with many features in the language, like the handling of optional values (and types) and with immutability being promoted throughout the language. The language also feels extensible. For extensibility, … »