I'm getting into Elixir , but before I could start doing anything I had to install it. Since I use asdf to manage language versions, I wrote down how I did it on my machine.

If you want to know more about asdf, I talked about it in my first post.

Setting up Ruby and Node.js with ASDF

For those who don't know, Elixir is an open-source programming language created by José Valim at Plataformatec (a company that was bought by Nubank ).

Elixir is a modern, dynamic and functional language. It runs on the Erlang VM, known for low-latency, concurrent, fault-tolerant, distributed and scalable systems ( more info ).

Let's go.

To start we need to install asdf.…