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Elixir: The “New” and “Magical” Functional Language!

Hyper or Hope for Functional Languages?

Josue Luzardo Gebrim
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5 min readMay 2, 2022

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Elixir is a functional programming language created in 2011 to be simple, scalable, and productive and provide solutions to the developer with the possibility of creating robust, fault-tolerant, and highly performant solutions.

Over the years, they have seen a growing community of highly engaged people, companies, and even banks that already have systems and solutions in production using this language.

What does José Valim, creator of Elixir, say?

Interview conducted on November 20, 2020, on the Rocketseat channel:

In this special end-of-season edition we had the opportunity to have a conversation with José Valim, Brazilian dev who created the Elixir programming language — used internationally in several technologies, including Discord and Pinterest. The subject of the week revolved around several processes involved in creating a new language, which proposes to be an efficient alternative in the technology market. On top of all…

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Josue Luzardo Gebrim
Data For Everyone

As a platform engineer, ecosystems, and data solutions, I'm sharing my opinion and what little I know from time to time here.