It’s a lot like Ruby syntactically and visually but it’s super easy to learn and start doing useful stuff in quickly. The combination of functional and declarative programming make for a very nice developer experience.
I can’t comment as I’ve not used scheme but looking at scheme’s syntax, elixir is much nicer. It’s supposed to take some of its inspiration from Ruby.
The big seller is that it runs on the Erlang VM so you get all the goodies for free: supervisor trees, OTP, processes, even able to call Erlang directly. It is both scriptable and compiled. Not so much suited for high performance computing though as benchmarls will show, but it is interesting to learn and I have gained a lot from exposing myself to functional programming paradigms.
Elixir. Especially with OTP to write distributed systems. Or with phoenix and liveview for web apps
It’s a functional language based on Erlang with a nicer syntax
How does it compare to other functional languages like Scheme?
It’s a lot like Ruby syntactically and visually but it’s super easy to learn and start doing useful stuff in quickly. The combination of functional and declarative programming make for a very nice developer experience.
I can’t comment as I’ve not used scheme but looking at scheme’s syntax, elixir is much nicer. It’s supposed to take some of its inspiration from Ruby.
The big seller is that it runs on the Erlang VM so you get all the goodies for free: supervisor trees, OTP, processes, even able to call Erlang directly. It is both scriptable and compiled. Not so much suited for high performance computing though as benchmarls will show, but it is interesting to learn and I have gained a lot from exposing myself to functional programming paradigms.
https://elixir-lang.org/