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Meta-Programming with Elixir - Yurii Rashkovskii

2,151 views · Published 22 October 2013 · 39:49 · Indexed 22 September 2026

Channel: Erlang Solutions · 2013 · Science & Technology

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Erlang User Conference 2013
More info and slides on the website: http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/ErlangUserConference2013/talks 

We all know Erlang as a language has certain limitations (for better or worse). It also makes you write a lot of boilerplate code. Sometimes we can put up with it, sometimes it's just annoying.

I've been looking into different meta-programming techniques to be used with Erlang. I've been using parse transformations a lot (and gave talks about them). But that wasn't enough for me. I've tried investing some time in Joxa (joxa.org, which is awesome, btw), but I found that it is a little bit more of a Lisp than Erlang. So I continued my search, and took another look at Elixir (elixir-lang.org), which I dismissed last year. It went through quite a transformation and, in my opinion, became a decent meta-compiler for Erlang that's not too far away from Erlang itself.

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