Elixir
A friendly functional language on the Erlang VM for fault-tolerant, highly concurrent systems. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- programming language
- Developer
- Elixir team
- Created by
- José Valim
- First release
- 2012
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://elixir-lang.org
- Paradigms
- Functional, Concurrent
- Typing
- Dynamic
- Type strength
- Strong
- Type inference
- No
- Memory management
- Garbage collected
- Runs as
- Bytecode on a virtual machine
- Main implementation
- BEAM, the Erlang VM
- Concurrency
- Lightweight processes and message passing
- Null safety
- No
- Package manager
- Hex
- Used for
- Back end, Web front end
- Specification
- None, the compiler is the reference