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I finished reading Elixir in Action a few days ago. This was probably the best part of that book. It takes you through building a primitive GenServer with basic
by probotect0r 6y ago
I finished reading Elixir in Action a few days ago. This was probably the best part of that book. It takes you through building a primitive GenServer with basic processes before moving onto actually using GenServer. It specifically goes over tail recursion optimization before it introduces the receive do loop, which seems like a very important part of the whole thing.
- AlchemistCamp 6y agoElixir in Action is fantastic. Its approach is so different from the other introductory books, but the payoff is real.
- arusahni 6y agoWould you recommend the book?
- bostonvaulter2 6y agoNot the OP, but it is a great book, I'd highly recommend it.
- RobertKerans 6y agoAlso not the OP, but unequivocally yes (though for full disclosure, I am biased as was one of the technical reviewers for the second edition). It was hugely important to me personally learning the language; the approach is excellent and it's very well written. You take a simple to-do application and write a number of versions of it, each one progressively more complex and featureful, and each one using progressively higher language/OTP abstractions.