MarcinKasprowicz

MarcinKasprowicz

Elixir for JavaScript developers: first impressions

Elixir language viewed from the perspective of a JavaScript developer. I compared selected aspects of the two languages and touched on topics like function overloading, iterating using recursion, and the pipe operator.

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gisselletdean

gisselletdean

Thanks for sharing your experience with Elixir as a JavaScript developer!

mercyf

mercyf

As a programmer mainly doing JavaScript for a few months now, and hoping to learn a functional language, this is really a nice intro to Elixir. Thanks.

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