Jumping into Elixir with Rob Conery
Rob Conery has the Elixir bug! Carl and Richard chat with Rob about being on show 1200, and how Elixir has sucked him in. Elixir is the syntactically friendly language over top of Erlang that has gotten a lot of attention lately. The conversation digs into the strategies around learning a new language, starting with building a good old fashion forms-over-data application. Rob used the Phoenix MVC framework with Elixir to build web pages quickly. He also talks about changing your thinking - how his Elixir code rapidly evolved from an old way of thinking to new, with terser syntax and taking advantage of the language style to build in a new way!
Guests:
Rob Conery
Rob Conery works at Microsoft with the VS Code team, creating content for YouTube as well as contributing to open source projects. Rob is also the author of The Imposter’s Handbook, The Imposter’s Roadmap, and A Curious Moon, which is one of Richard’s favorite books because of the ending.
Links:
- Cisco Design Flaw http://gizmodo.com/this-cisco-design-flaw-is-so-bad-its-almost-unbelievab-1729556726
- Rob's Pluralsight Courses http://www.pluralsight.com/author/rob-conery
- Rob's Open Source Projects https://github.com/robconery
- The Erlang BEAM VM Spec http://www.cs-lab.org/historical_beam_instruction_set.html
- Elixir Blog http://elixir-lang.org/blog/
- Rob's Blog http://rob.conery.io/
- Programming Elixir Book https://pragprog.com/book/elixir/programming-elixir
- RethinkDB https://www.rethinkdb.com/