This week in Elixir

Building a Casino in Elixir

So obviously Philip can’t build an actual working Casino in a single tutorial. Instead he is going to focus on building out a supervision tree using the components of Elixir.

Pattern Macthing to Polymorphism - an Unexpected Journey

Ian didn't really appreciate the power of pattern matching when he started learning Elixir. Little did he know ...

Is Elixir programming really that hard?

How to survive in a post-apocalyptic Elixir world devoid of classes, objects and methods that we've grown to depend on so much?

BEAM VM Wisdoms 1.0 documentation

VM Wisdoms is a collection of easy to read articles as well as in-depth knowledge such as VM internals, memory layout, opcodes etc.

The Elixir Way: Operational Reasoning

Omid wrote a blog post about looking at a project with ones mind towards OTP, which takes some getting used to.

Introducing PolicyWonk - Elixir/Phoenix Authorization Library

PolicyWonk is a lightweight authorization and resource loading library for any Plug application.

Elixir JSON 1.0 - Codename Bacon is out!

According to its author, Elixir JSON is the first 100% native Elixir JSON library! Definitely worth a look.

Actors vs Objects

A blog post outlining the difference between actors and objects.