The latest articles on DEV Community by Kevin Asaria (@kevinasaria). https://dev.to/kevinasaria https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F209237%2F716bf7a6-df03-4f09-87ba-e5f4dd66d174.jpg https://dev.to/kevinasaria en Kevin Asaria Thu, 03 Jun 2021 08:23:06 +0000 https://dev.to/kevinasaria/my-journey-into-elixir-34n7 https://dev.to/kevinasaria/my-journey-into-elixir-34n7 <p>I have always been interested in learning programming languages rather than frameworks of a particular language. Last year(2020) I decided to learn a functional language having heard so much buzz around them.</p> <p>Now the question was which functional programming language would I embark to learn. At that time the only functional languages that I had heard of were Lisp and Haskell but then the youtube algorithms kicked in and gave the the video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxYFOM3UJzo">Elixir: The Documentary </a> by honeypot. </p> <p>I liked the emphasis they put on hardware , that is, computers are getting more cores and other languages are not designed to utilise such infrastructure. In the video they also stated that it could be used in <a href="https://www.nerves-project.org/">IoT</a> and its use reduced the use of server resources. When I heard all this I was hooked.</p> <p>That's how the my journey began with Elixir. It has been a slow journey but currently I am learning the <a href="https://www.phoenixframework.org/">Phoenix</a> framework for building web applications for a project I am planning to undertake.</p> <p>This is just to encourage you to peek into the Elixir language and get a different perspective of what programming can be. Like pattern matching instead of assignments when using the = operator or spawning processes to do some work.</p> <p>The journey continues slowly but surely.</p>