There's no magic. It's functionality that's made possible by the BEAM. It's just one of those things that came out of realizing how powerful the runtime was for handling certain types of problems.
When you combine a couple of those bits together, you end up with this.
The only modern web problem that Elixir isn't ideally suited for is heavy number crunching. Otherwise it gives this amazing balance of efficiency, scalability, reliability, maintainability and capability that can't be replicated in any language that has a shared memory model.
When you combine a couple of those bits together, you end up with this.
The only modern web problem that Elixir isn't ideally suited for is heavy number crunching. Otherwise it gives this amazing balance of efficiency, scalability, reliability, maintainability and capability that can't be replicated in any language that has a shared memory model.