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Lessons about the Elixir programming language, inspired by Twitter's [Scala School](http://twitter.github.io/scala_school/).

_Your feedback and participation is encouraged!_

## About Elixir

"Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications." — [elixir-lang.org](http://elixir-lang.org/)

Elixir leverages the battle tested ErlangVM to build distributed and fault-tolerant systems with low-latency out of the box.

__Features__:

+ Scalable
+ Fault-tolerant
+ Functional Programming
+ Extensible