Learn Elixir the language behind Whatsapp,Telegram, Discord and Pinterest

Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications.

Elixir leverages the Erlang VM, known for running low-latency, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. Elixir is successfully used in web development, embedded software, data ingestion, and multimedia processing, across a wide range of industries. Here is a peek:

Performance feature's of elixir:

Scalability

All Elixir code runs inside lightweight threads of execution (called processes) that are isolated and exchange information via messages

Erlang compatible

Elixir runs on the Erlang VM giving developers complete access to Erlang's ecosystem, used by companies like Heroku, WhatsApp, Klarna and many more to build distributed, fault-tolerant applications

Fault-tolerance

To cope with failures, Elixir provides supervisors which describe how to restart parts of your system when things go awry, going back to a known initial state that is guaranteed to work

If you haven’t yet installed Elixir, visit installation page. Once you are done, you can run elixir --version to get the current Elixir version.

let’s start by running iex means interactive elixir

some basic code

Support for binary, octal, and hexadecimal numbers comes built in:

ATOMS

You can print a string using the IO.puts/1 function from the IO module

IO.puts/1 function returns the atom :ok after printing.

In next Article we will go more deep into Elixir Laguage.