Blog: Elixir

Our first guest on the Functional Futures podcast was Brooklyn Zelenka, the co-founder & CTO of FISSION. Listen to our interview with her to find out more about functional programming, the Witchcraft library, and the good and bad sides of Web3.

Listen to our interview with Louis Pilfold, the creator of Gleam, which is a fast, friendly, and functional language for building type-safe, scalable systems that runs on BEAM.

Ecto is the go-to database toolkit for Elixir developers. Read our beginner-oriented article to learn how it works and what's special about it.

Read our interview with Eduardo Messuti, the founder & CEO of Statuspal, to find out the benefits of using Elixir for SaaS projects.

What are the benefits of using Elixir for building an open-source communication platform? Find out in our interview with Donald Lobo, the founder and chief architect of Glific.

Phoenix is the main web framework in the Elixir ecosystem. Learn how it works and what's special about it.

In this article, we cover metaprogramming and macros in Elixir. Discover how you can use Elixir to write code that writes code.

Learn what parser combinators are, what they are made of, and how to make your own CSV parser using NimbleParsec, a parser combinator library written in Elixir.

What are the benefits of Elixir for SaaS products? Find out in our interview with Alex Reichert, the co-founder of Papercups.

Learning Elixir? We have collected all the tips, techniques, and patterns you need to do beginner-level Elixir programming in one article. Learn about higher-order functions, pattern matching, recursion, and more.

Learn more about Erlang, a functional, concurrency-oriented programming language that powers applications like WhatsApp and WeChat.

Learn about OTP, a set of tools and libraries that Elixir inherits from Erlang.