[topfunky]

This is great timing. We just recorded a two hour Intro to Elixir with its creator Jose Valim. We'll be publishing it in June at https://peepcode.com

I think it will be a good companion to the books from Pragmatic Programmers and O'Reilly. Jose works through a real-world project. You can see how he writes code with Elixir, uses metaprogramming, converts code to run concurrently, etc.

I was impressed with the syntactical consistency that makes more sense than Ruby, such as putting "do" after "def". You can write native-looking structures in Elixir that wouldn't be possible in Ruby (such as an if-then).