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.
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 Elixir: The Documentary by honeypot.
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 IoT and its use reduced the use of server resources. When I heard all this I was hooked.
That's how the my journey began with Elixir. It has been a slow journey but currently I am learning the Phoenix framework for building web applications for a project I am planning to undertake.
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.
The journey continues slowly but surely.
Top comments (0)