Programming Elixir
"Functional programming techniques help you manage the complexities of today’s real-world, concurrent systems; maximize uptime; and manage security. Enter Elixir, with its modern, Ruby-like, extendable syntax, compile and runtime evaluation, 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."--Publisher's website.
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- Programming Elixir by Dave Thomas. It was very digestable for me.
- These are great suggestions. The getting started guides on Elixir and Phoenix get you moving with the basics. Beyond that, Programming Elixir, Elixir in Action, and Programming Phoenix are great book options.
- I used Dave Thomas's Programming Elixir > 1.6 and can recommend it highly for learning the language.
As others have mentioned on some other threads, learning about OTP, Genserver is really worthwhile. Apart from language, the book teaches a bit about that too. But maybe just enough.
- Elixir is a lot of fun and really makes you think (coming from an imperative lang). It's also got great tooling, readable docs and plenty of resources out there. Dave Thomas' book is nice[1]
[1] https://www.amazon.com.au/Programming-Elixir-Dave-Thomas/dp/...
- Disclaimer: This is primarily about language... not BEAM as such. Also, links are inline.
I liked the book Programming Elixir 1.6 By (Pragmatic) Dave Thomas. Solved the exercises. Did not quite find use for macros. And I have not done any production projects.
The pragmatic studio has some courses for the space: elixir, OTP, LiveView, etc. and free tutorials. The quality is good. Simon Thomson's course on futurelearn was also good. https://pragmaticstudio.com/ and https://www.futurelearn.com/
A recurrent problem for me though has been to write an application. I used to write java's petclinic/petstore application when learning a framework, library, etc. Have not been able to do so with some other ecosystems... perhaps laziness, perhaps have not been able to answer why. And languages in isolation have not clicked for me much apart from maybe making me think in different ways.
Why does this Erlang/Elixir/BEAM interest me then? A colleague who talked highly of it... Then there's Joe, his talks, and Alan Kay's recommendation has Joe's thesis on recommended reading list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20653453
There is also Erlang Masterclass series 1,2,3 starting here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR812eVbehlwEArT3Bv3U...
- I can also recommend Programming Phoenix. I've also heard good things about the LiveView courses on the Pragmatic Studio.
"Programming Elixir" and "Designing Elixir Systems with OTP" are also good, the former more so if you get started. From what I remember "Programming Phoenix" was enough to get started though, and these two books are better at getting deeper knowledge of Elixir/OTP.
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