LoneStarRuby Conf 2013 - Elixir: Power of Erlang, Joy of Ruby by Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas
Elixir: Power of Erlang, Joy of Ruby
I'm a language nut. I love trying them out, and I love thinking about their design and implementation. (I know, it's sad.)
I came across Ruby in 1998 because I was an avid reader of comp.lang.misc (ask your parents). I downloaded it, compiled it, and fell in love. As with any time you fall in love, it's difficult to explain why. It just worked the way I work, and it had enough depth to keep me interested.
Fast forward 15 years. All that time I'd been looking for something new that gave me the same feeling.
Then I came across Elixir, a language by José Valim, that puts a humane, Ruby-like syntax on the Erlang VM.
Now I'm dangerous. I want other people to see just how great this is. I want to evangelize. I won't try to convert you away from Ruby. But I might just persuade you to add Elixir to your toolset.
So come along and let me show you the things that I think make Elixir a serious alternative for writing highly reliable, scalable, and performant server code.
And, more important, let me show you some fun stuff.
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[@RubyLoveIO]

Damn you Jose Valim! Damn you for making such an elegant language that looks enough like Ruby that I now want to abandon her for the new hotness of immutable pattern matching :*( Before now I thought performant languages couldn't be beautiful and vice-versa.

[@YitzhakBarGeva]

You're probably in a tiny minority, YoLinYo. Hoardes of highly talented programmers think otherwise.

[@Z-add]

what does it do better than F#?

[@jeffdickey]

Cross-platform. Scalable, distributed, flexible deployment. Industry standards not locked into single commercial vendors. Pick any ten.

[@h3um]

worst audio quality every, but talk is worth suffering from it.

[@YoLninYo]

pragprog: worst technical books ever.