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Andrea Leopardi
October 26, 2018
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Elixir - functional, concurrent, distributed programming for the rest of us
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Transcript
functional, concurrent, distributed programming for the rest of us ELIXIR
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functional, concurrent, distributed programming for the rest of us ELIXIR
LET'S BUILD A LANGUAGE
Language for modern systems
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concurrent distributed fault-tolerant extensible
don't give to devs, enable devs
VM
NO TYPE SYSTEM
CONCURRENCY
threads are heavy
schedulers VM processes
memory memory
IMMUTABLE DATA
MESSAGE PASSING
send(pid, message) receive do ... end +
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pattern matching
{1, _} = some_tuple
receive do {1, _} -> ... {_, _} -> ...
end
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case expression do pattern1 -> ... pattern2 -> ... _
-> ... end
ISOLATED MEMORY MESSAGE PASSING +
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def loop(state) do receive do new_state -> loop(new_state) end end
DISTRIBUTION
node 1 node 2
FAULT TOLERANCE
acceptor
acceptor
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link
link
link
link trap crash
link trap crash trap crash
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SUPERVISORS
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SYNTAX
github.com/josevalim/lego-lang
def(double_sum(a, b), do: ( =(c, +(a, b)) *(c, 2) ))
def(double_sum(a, b), do: ( =(c, +(a, b)) *(c, 2) ))
def(double_sum(a, b), do: ( =(c, +(a, b)) *(c, 2) ))
def(double_sum(a, b), do: ( =(c, +(a, b)) *(c, 2) ))
if(>(a, b), do: a, else: b)
macros functions +
less parens?
def(double_sum(a, b), do: ( =(c, +(a, b)) *(c, 2) ))
def(double_sum(a, b), do: ( c = a + b c
* 2 ))
def double_sum(a, b), do: ( c = a + b
c * 2 )
def double_sum(a, b) do c = a + b c
* 2 end
if a > b do a else b end
literals and containers
[1, 2, 3] [](1, 2, 3)
macros functions +
def add(a, b), do: a + b
defmacro def(call, keywords) add(a, b) do: (a + b)
case expression do true -> branch1 else -> branch2 end
defmacro if(condition, do: branch1, else: branch2) do quote do case
unquote(condition) do true -> unquote(branch1) false -> unquote(branch2) end end end
CONLCLUSION
PLOT TWIST... we built ELIXIR
concurrent distrubuted fault-tolerant extensible
elixir-lang.org @whatyouhide