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The Elixir programming language

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Simple from zero to scale

Fast development with robust practices

Grows from solo developers to teams of hundreds

Scales from single servers to global networks

Built on decades of Erlang reliability and fault-tolerance

Composable data transformations

Output

%{"delightful" => 1, "fun" => 1, "learn" => 1, "ship" => 1, "to" => 2}

Why Elixir?

Maintenance

Elixir helps developers write clear and purposeful code that focuses on your data and your domain. Thanks to immutability, memory safety, and Elixir's gradual type system , you can build systems that recover from failures and are easy to maintain.

Scalability

A single Elixir codebase can scale vertically (on multi-core machines) and horizontally (communicating across nodes), excelling at message-oriented and web real-time systems.…

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