u/aresfieldsin r/elixir • Recommends
For folks who are having a difficult time getting into elixir, here are talks that did it for me.
I looked at elixir a while ago and didn't get it. I knew it was running on top of erlang VM which sounded cool, but otherwise just seemed like it was trying to be ruby without classes. Mutability is evil and something about data transfer, functions and pattern matching. I thought pattern matching had something to do with regex. Anyway, I just brushed it aside at the time.
I think coming from ruby with an object oriented mentality it was difficult to grasp key concepts and definitions. More importantly, it was difficult to understand reasons behind them and their benefits. I wanted to sha…