Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Programming Elixir
The best way to get started with Elixir.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Programming Elixir launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hello everyone! I'm currently in a journey to learn and improve my Elixir and Go skills (my daily job uses C++) and looking through my backlog for projects to take on I decided Elixir is the perfect language to write a highly-parallel BitTorrent tracker. So I have spent my free time these last 3 months writing one! Now I think it has enough features to present it to the world (and a docker image to give it a quick try). I know some people see trackers as relics of the past now that DHT and PEX are common but I think they still serve a purpose in today's Internet (purely talking about public…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Great book with a low barrier to entry for learning Haskell
2016 · its alternatives →
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Sep 2025 · weuseelixir.com · its alternatives →
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The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →
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2017 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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Interviews with the 15 most interesting computer programmers
2015 · its alternatives →
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Getting Real▲234The smarter way to build web apps. A free book by 37signals.
2015 · its alternatives →
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Guided code walk-throughs to learn Elixir
2022 · its alternatives →
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Based on the UX crash course by Joel Marsh (@HipperElement)
2016 · its alternatives →
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Learn how to build your own programming language interpreter
2016 · its alternatives →
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2015 · elixirschool.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · elixirdose.com · its alternatives →
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