Elixir, the path to functional programming ⚗️

With my Rust rediscovery a lot of functional programming concepts became less obscure. In order to go deeper into this paradigm I chose Elixir a powerful general purpose, functional programming language, compiled and executed inside the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM).

But why Elixir, if Erlang exists ? Because :

Elixir, is Erlang with underpants - Athoune

Unlike Erlang, the Elixir syntax is clear and elegant. The language comes with everything you need, included : interactive shell, deps tooling, building tooling and more…

Rust, the (re)discovery 🗺️

Back to 2014, the year I wrote my first Rust program ! Wow, that was even before version 1.0 !

At my school, it was all about C, and 10 years of C is quite boring (because, yes, I started programming way before my engineering school). I wanted some fresh air, and even if I really liked Python back to that time, i’m more into statically typed programming languages.