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Elixir vs Elvish

A side-by-side look at Elixir and Elvish. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Elixir

Elixir

Development

Elixir is a modern, functional, concurrent programming language built on top of the Erlang VM. It takes advantages of Erlang's rock-solid fault-tolerance and scalability while also introducing cleaner and more maintainable syntax. Elixir is well-suited for building distributed, fault-tolerant applications.

functionalconcurrentfaulttolerantscalabledistributed
Elvish

Elvish

Development

Elvish is an expressive, friendly and open shell and scripting language for Linux/UNIX. It combines the convenience of interactive shells with the programmability of scripting languages. Elvish supports handy features like pathname expansion, pipelines, redirections and variables.

shellscriptinglinuxunix

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