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The Bridge Between Elixir and Zig with Isaac Yonemoto

Elixir Wizards

CHAPTER

Elixir Has Made Me a Better Programmer?

Elixir is a high level programming language. It lets you write C code and then compile it into Elixir that will execute the foreign code or Erlang that was triggered by NIFs, which are in the beam virtual machine. I think my first Elixir job made me a much better programmer because there was a very strong emphasis put on testing. And just, just TD is like a great way to just put blinders on yourself. You don't obsess over all of the nitty greedy infinite possibilities.

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