The feature hiding in Elixir, and I assume Erlang, is the binary pattern matching, on either whole bytes, big or little endian, down to individual bits in a byt

The feature hiding in Elixir, and I assume Erlang, is the binary pattern matching, on either whole bytes, big or little endian, down to individual bits in a byte. I'm helping with a project to recreate the old Prodigy network, and the combination of FP principles and the ability to slice and dice bytes like I did with C in the '80s has me hooked on Elixir.