Programming Elixir

You want to explore functional programming, but are put off by the academic feel tell me about monads just one 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. Read Programming Elixir – kino-fada.fr Disclaimer The good folks at The Pragmatic Bookshelf were nice enough to provide me with a free copy of this book, but this has no influence on the contents of the review.My first contact with Dave Thomas was the famous Pickaxe book for Ruby It wasn t my first contact with the language, but it certainly helped in deepening my understanding of it It s a great book, and I went back numerous times to re read certain chapters I already had a crush on Ruby, but the Pickaxe helped turning that Disclaimer The good folks at The Pragmatic Bookshelf were nice enough to provide me with a free copy of this book, but this has no influence on the contents of the review.My first contact with Dave Thomas was the famous Pickaxe book for Ruby It wasn t my first contact with the language, but it certainly helped in deepening my under...I ve been really excited about Elixir for a few months and wanting to dig in Late last year, I went through the Getting Started guide and managed to get through the whole thing in about a day.Then I did nothing with Elixir until picking up this book.I really wanted to like it but really, I found that it was just a wordier version of the Getting Started guide It took longer to get through but taught very little above what was in the guide Further, the author s writing style and humour came I ve been really excited ...very nice introduction to the language while it targets programmers who do not know erlang already, and I already do, I still enjoyed the macro and protocol chapters a lot also covers some basic functional programming well with practical examples.recommended for anyone looking to learn ElixirThe best tech book I ve read in months.Perfect balance between what s told what s needed to comfortably start coding in Elixir It shines especially in language dedicated sections, OTP part feels a bit too short, but as it can be really overwhelming based on my own experience when I was learning Erlang some time ago , I don t find it a big trouble.All key topics distribution, supervision, actor model itself have enough of author s love, with an exception of error handling maybe And I d The best tech book I ve read in months.Perfect balance between what s told what s needed to comfortably start coding in Elixir It shines especially in language dedicated sections, OTP part feels a bit too short, but as it can be really overwhelming based on my own experience when I was learning Erlang some time ago , I don t find it a big trouble.All key topics distribution, supervision, actor model itself have enough of aut...Fun easy read Doesn t dive to deep, but gives you what you need to understand the language.If you re looking for a introduction about how powerful is Elixir, this is a great choice Dave Thomas starts with some basics principles of the language and Functional Progamming then shows how the some core principles of the OTP works, as the final part he shows some advanced principles like Macros and Protocols, but If you re looking for aadvanced book this is probably not the best one.The nice thing ab...Quite OK book It was the first FP book I read fully, so first part was useful I imagine it will be too basic for developers with FP experience Unfortunately, second part did not dig deep into systems de...A good book for experienced developers to get started with Elixir.Great introduction to Elixir Would highly recommend for anybody interested in the language.This book was fun, I still have quite a bit to learn, but it was well written, and I would need to practice a bit to get to understand stuff completely.

• English
• 02 February 2017
Dave Thomas
• Paperback
• 287 pages
• 1937785580
• Dave Thomas
• Programming Elixir