Why Elixir is one of the hottest programming languages to learn

The 2024 Stack Overflow survey highlighted the rising stock of the functional, concurrent, and general-purpose programming language Elixir.

Created by José Valim and first released in 2011 – it’s taken until 2024 for it to rise to be the second-most desired programming language to learn according to the 65,000 respondents, just ahead of Zig and behind only Rust.

Elixir runs on the Erlang virtual machine – a foundation that gives it some significant advantages. Erlang was developed by Ericsson in the 1980s for telecommunication systems, and specifically designed to handle concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems – precisely the kind of challenges faced by modern web applications.

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