DinosaurDance“As garbage collection once freed developers from the shackles of memory management, Elixir is here to free you from antiquated concurrency mechanisms and bring you joy when writing concurrent code.” José Valim
It's All About the Memory
One minute into the Programming Elixir book’s foreward and the focus is unlike any other programming book I’ve read. The foreward by José Valim spotlights the historic necessity of keeping, mutating, and freeing single piece of memory memory-limited computers. Computers are no longer getting significantly quicker. We now get more compute power through multiple CPU cores. Throughput is parallel. Managing shared memory across multiple CPU cores is complex and error prone.