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I'm working myself through a Dave Thomas tutorial for elixir 1.2. Using elixir/erlang in a docker container. If you're interested here's an intro: media.pragprog.com/.../introduction.pdf . Elixir is not as hard to start working in as f.e. haskell. I will be learning the elixir phoenix web framework lateron. Elixir allows for massive scalability without the headaches of callbacks (goodbye node.js!) www.reddit.com/.../ Communication between elixir processes is fast btw (google yourself for that). I think Dave Thomas is right: "Elixir is the next killer language. The future has to be functional, immutable data, and it has to be concurrent. It's the only way to grow. And very few of our current languages let us do that."
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