GitHub - elixir-lang/elixir at ae3bdb72eb5a3d3bc80b4335a47579b533b0537b
Elixir is a programming language built on top of Erlang. As Erlang, it is a functional language with strict evaluation, single assignment and dynamic typing built to support distributed, fault-tolerant, non-stop applications with hot swapping. Elixir allows you to invoke Erlang modules without a need to convert data types, therefore there is no hit in performance when invoking existing Erlang code.
The main difference between Elixir and Erlang is syntax and object orientation. Elixir provides a very simple Object Model based on prototype languages with most of its syntax based on Ruby.
Elixir is not ready for use yet, though this milestone will be achieved soon. If you want to contribute to Elixir, you can do that by cloning the repository and running make test.
The tests are organized in two directories: test/erlang and test/elixir. The first are written in Erlang and the second in Elixir. Much of Elixir's standard library is written in Elixir and tested in Elixir. This makes fairly easy to improve the language.
