Ask HN: Elixir/Erlang Resources?

2 points by adur1990 3y ago ↗ HN

What materials and resources can you recommend for learning Elixir/Erlang?

Elixir seems to be hyped in my community right now because it seems like you can write parallel/concurrent programs quickly and easily. So I wanted to give it a try.

So far I use Python, C and Golang for my applications. So my knowledge of functional languages is limited.

Thanks

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al2o3cr 3y ago ↗

The language homepage has a solid "Getting Started" section that will walk you through the basics:

https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html

There are also interactive tutorials that ship with Livebook, including visualizations of message-passing:

https://livebook.dev/

After that, the Pragprogs have a solid line of books if you want to go deeper.

innocentoldguy 3y ago ↗

https://pragmaticstudio.com has some of the best courses on Elixir, OTP, Phoenix, and LiveView. I'm not affiliated with them in any way. I've just used their courses to get software engineers without any previous Elixir experience successfully trained in the language.

https://elixircasts.io

and

https://elixirschool.com

are also good resources.