Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications. Elixir leverages the Erlang VM, known for running low-latency, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. Elixir is successfully used in web development, embedded software, data ingestion, and multimedia processing, across a wide range of industries. All Elixir code runs inside lightweight threads of execution (called processes) that are isolated and exchange information via messages. Due to their lightweight nature, it is not uncommon to have hundreds of thousands of processes running concurrently in the same machine. Isolation allows processes to be garbage collected independently, reducing system-wide pauses, and using all machine resources as efficiently as possible (vertical scaling). Processes are also able to communicate with other processes running on different machines in the same network.

Features

  • Low-latency, distributed, and fault-tolerant
  • Used in web development, embedded software, data ingestion, and multimedia processing
  • Elixir code runs inside lightweight threads of execution
  • Processes exchange information via messages
  • Event-driven programming via message passing
  • Helps developers write code that is short, concise, and maintainable

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Apache License V2.0

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Operating Systems

FreeBSD, Windows

Programming Language

Elixir

Related Categories

Elixir Software Development Software, Elixir Build Tools, Elixir Media Center Markup Language (MCML) Software

Registered

2021-03-04