Elixir (programming language)

Elixir is a functional, concurrent, general-purpose programming language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM). Elixir builds on top of Erlang and shares the same abstractions for building distributed, fault-tolerant applications. Elixir also provides productive tooling and an extensible design. The latter is supported by compile-time metaprogramming with macros and polymorphism via protocols. Elixir is a functional, concurrent, general-purpose programming language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM). Elixir builds on top of Erlang and shares the same abstractions for building distributed, fault-tolerant applications. Elixir also provides productive tooling and an extensible design. The latter is supported by compile-time metaprogramming with macros and polymorphism via protocols. Elixir is used by companies such as PagerDuty, Discord, E-MetroTel, Pinterest, Moz, Bleacher Report, The Outline, Inverse and Divvy, and for building embedded systems. The community organizes yearly events in the United States, Europe and Japan as well as minor local events and conferences. José Valim is the creator of the Elixir programming language, a research and development project of Plataformatec. His goals were to enable higher extensibility and productivity in the Erlang VM while keeping compatibility with Erlang's ecosystem. On July 12, 2018, Honeypot released a mini-documentary on Elixir. Elixir follows Semantic Versioning and has only 1 major version with no plans for a second. Each of the minor versions supports a specific range of Erlang/OTP versions. The following examples can be run in an iex shell or saved in a file and run from the command line by typing elixir <filename>. Classic Hello world example: