In this tutorial we are going to teach you the Elixir foundation, the language syntax, how to define modules, how to manipulate the characteristics of common data structures and more. This chapter will focus on ensuring Elixir is installed and that you can successfully run Elixir’s Interactive Shell, called IEx.<\/p>\n
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Elixir\u00a0is a\u00a0functional<\/a>,\u00a0concurrent<\/a>,\u00a0high-level<\/a>\u00a0general-purpose<\/a>\u00a0programming language<\/a>\u00a0that runs on the\u00a0BEAM<\/a>\u00a0virtual machine<\/a>, which is also used to implement the\u00a0Erlang<\/a> programming language.\u00a0Elixir builds on top of Erlang and shares the same abstractions for building\u00a0distributed,\u00a0fault-tolerant\u00a0applications. Elixir also provides productive tooling and an\u00a0extensible\u00a0design. The latter is supported by compile-time\u00a0metaprogramming\u00a0with\u00a0macros\u00a0and\u00a0polymorphism\u00a0via protocols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"