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You want to explore functional programming, but are put off by the academic feel (tell me about monads just one more time). You know you need concurrent applications, but also know these are almost impossible to get right. Meet Elixir, a functional, concurrent language built on the rock-solid Erlang VM. Elixir's pragmatic syntax and built-in support for metaprogramming will make you productive and keep you interested for the long haul. This book is the introduction to Elixir for experienced programmers.

Maybe you need something that's closer to Ruby, but with a battle-proven environment that's unrivaled for massive scalability, concurrency, distribution, and fault tolerance. Maybe the time is right for the Next Big Thing. Maybe it's Elixir.

This edition of the book has been updated to cover Elixir 1.2, including the new with expression, the exrm release manager, and the removal of deprecated types.

As a developer, you've probably heard that functional programming techniques help manage the complexities of today's real-world, concurrent systems. You're also investigating designs that help you maximize uptime and manage security.

This book is your guide to Elixir, a modern, functional, and concurrent programming language. Because Elixir runs on the Erlang VM, and uses the underlying Erlang/OTP architecture, it benefits from almost 20 years of research into high performance, highly parallel, and seriously robust applications. Elixir brings a lot that's new: a modern, Ruby-like, extendable syntax, compile and runtime evaluation, a hygienic macro system, and more.

But, just as importantly, Elixir brings a sense of enjoyment to parallel, functional programming. Your applications become fun to work with, and the language encourages you to experiment.

Part 1 covers the basics of writing sequential Elixir programs. We'll look at the language, the tools, and the conventions.

Part 2 uses these skills to start writing concurrent code--applications that use all the cores on your machine, or all the machines on your network! And we do it both with and without OTP.

And Part 3 looks at the more advanced features of the language, from DSLs and code generation to extending the syntax.

By the end of this book, you'll understand Elixir, and know how to apply it to solve your complex, modern problems.

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	Programming Erlang, 2nd edition	Programming Elixir 1.2	Metaprogramming Elixir	Programming Phoenix
Covers	The framework that started the revolution. Learn Erlang start to finish straight from the source - its creator.	Meet Elixir, a functional, concurrent language built on the rock-solid Erlang VM. This definitive guide tells you what you need to know.	Write code that writes code with Elixir macros, and use them to extend the language. Written by the creator of Phoenix.	Build an application that’s fast and reliable. At every step, you’ll learn from the Phoenix creators not just what to do, but why.
Reader Level	Beginner to intermediate	Intermediate to advanced	Intermediate to advanced	Advanced beginner to advanced intermediate
Page count	548	354	128	298

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Dave Thomas is a programmer who likes to evangelize cool stuff. He cowrote "The Pragmatic Programmer" and was one of the creators of the Agile Manifesto. His book "Programming Ruby" introduced the Ruby language to the world, and "Agile Web Development with Rails" helped kickstart the Rails revolution.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pragmatic Bookshelf; 1st edition (March 22, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 340 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1680501666
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1680501667
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.36 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.52 x 0.74 x 9.25 inches

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I'm a programmer, and now I'm an accidental publisher.

I wrote The Pragmatic Programmer with Andy Hunt at the end of the '90s, and that experience opened a new world for us. We discovered a love of writing that complemented our love of learning new things.

I'm one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, and I'm probably responsible for bringing Ruby to attention of Western developers with the book Programming Ruby. I was one of the first adopters of Rails, and helped spread the word with the book Agile Web Development with Rails.

I enjoy speaking at conferences, running public and private training. But most of all, I love coding.

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Jason Anderson

Great book to get started with Elixir

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 17, 2016

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Great book to get started with Elixir. I appreciated all the exercises to help you get comfortable with the language.

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Baci

The one thing I recommend is to maybe have things alittle clearer for various ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 5, 2016

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Helped me survive my first professional opportunity. Very clear and concise examples. The one thing I recommend is to maybe have things alittle clearer for various operating systems in some parts. Overall though, well done.

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Pretty good although I would have preferred more depth on the topics of
Parts II and III.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 30, 2017

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Recommend to anyone wanting to learn Elixir

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 17, 2016

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Easy to understand and does a pretty good job explaining things.

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I've learned a lot from this book. Love it!

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J.K.

I don't think I would have fully understood some of the topics covered by this book if I didn't have the better structured and m

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Very chaotic, with debatable topic order, some explanations posing more questions than they provided answers. Some of this could be possibly blamed on the characteristics of the language. The author states in the foreword "I want to inspire you to get involved, and the point to the online resources that will fill in the gaps.", but I think this has been taken a step too far. Frequently there's just a handful of examples for a given construct with a wordy commentary, without a more in-depth explanation of the semantics for example. This gives you a vague idea of what is possible, but doesn't give you an actual understanding or confidence in the subject. Much of the stuff could be described shorter and more precisely, without sacrificing how accessible it is to the newcomers to the language.

In general a far cry from the Joe Armstrong's "Programming Erlang". I don't think I would have fully understood some of the topics covered by this book if I didn't have the better structured and more in-depth explanation from "Programming Erlang".

Alan Maciel

Best Elixir Book ever

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The best book to start learning Elixir

ysael pepin

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super good book

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Livro didático que no meu caso, até então sem experiência com programação escalável ao nível que Elixir permite... Totalmente recomendável.

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Matt

New version available!

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The book itself is very good but I found out after the fact that a 1.3 version is in the works and already available as a beta eBook. I had to pay an additional $25 to get access to that even though I already purchased this 1.2 version.

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