Been asked to do a presentation about Elixir - what should I include?

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Make VERY SURE to outline the runtime’s benefits:

  • Preemptive scheduling (what 99% of the runtimes out there don’t have)
  • OTP’s let it crash and get restored way of work
  • Supervisors!
  • Extremely easy to achieve parallelism and concurrency

Most people just fangirl at the language and a lot of other people are very rightfully not impressed. This decision is only 5-10% about the languages (say because of meta-programming / macros and good libraries). 90-95% of the benefit is the runtime so do your very best to highlight that!

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