November 2023: Elixir

It’s time to look at a new and fascinating dynamic language: Elixir!

Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications. Elixir is built on Erlang, known for creating low-latency, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. It adds Ruby-inspired syntax and capabilities. The combination allows developers to be productive in several domains, such as web development, embedded software, machine learning, data pipelines, and multimedia processing, across a wide range of industries. Wesley Giles will introduce us to this unique and powerful language.

Location: Innovation Hub

We meet in the Innovation Hub, a gorgeous new facility that’s part of the renovated Dayton Arcade complex.
Enter through the doors that face the Wright Stop Plaza bus hub.

Street parking is free in the evening. I usually park on Ludlow Street.

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if for any reason coming downtown doesn’t work for you (for instance, you’ve been exposed to COVID, or you’ve converted yourself to purely digital format and now exist as a set of cloud-hosted algorithms), we’ll be online as well!

Join us at 7 PM EDT on the PyFri Discord channel, discord.gg/9SgTh3T, and click on the General voice chat link. You may need to install the Discord desktop app rather than just using the web interface.