Joe Armstrong - Erlang and other stuff Home Archive Resources Installing Links Source 31 May 2013 About a week ago I started looking at Elixir . Elixir had been one of those things that I was vaguely aware of but had not yet time to look at in any detail. This all changed when I discovered the announcement that Dave Thomas was publishing Programming Elixir . Dave Thomas edited my Erlang book and did great work in introducing Ruby, so when Dave gets excited about something then this is a sure sign that something interesting is in the wind. Dave was excited about Elixir, in the introduction to his new book he says: I came across Ruby in 1998 because I was an avid reader of comp.lang.misc (ask your parents). I downloaded it, compiled it, and fell in love. As with any time you fall in love, it’s difficult to explain why. It just worked the way I work, and it had ...