Elixir is a functional language that takes advantage of the functional programming paradigm. This means that in Elixir you’re more concerned with what your code does rather than how it does it.

Elixir’s syntax is inspired by Ruby and other languages in the same family such as Python, JavaScript, and CoffeeScript. The syntax makes it easy to read and understand because most of the words have meaning on their own (e.g., if/else). This makes writing idiomatic Elixir code much more accessible than other languages like Scala or F# where there isn’t always an obvious way to know what some special operator does based on its name alone (e.g., map).

Functional programming is also declarative because instead of describing each step manually from the start through completion like imperative models do; functional programs describe what should happen without telling us how this will happen—they just tell us what should happen! This lets us focus less on implementation details which makes our code more scalable since we don’t need as many details about how things work when trying something new.

• Familiarity

The syntax is similar to Ruby, but it has a functional programming foundation. The syntax is easy to learn and read, so you should expect your first few months with Elixir to be very productive. It’s also easy to write and understand, so you won’t have any trouble getting started on the job right away!

• Fault Tolerance and Redundancy

If you’re new to Elixir, you may be wondering how fault-tolerant it is. The answer is that Elixir is designed to be fault-tolerant and redundant.

Erlang was originally designed by Léon Oord as part of the BEAM VM project back in 1988. It comes with built-in support for concurrency and distribution via processes, which means it can run on multiple CPUs or cores in one machine, allowing your application to scale up as needed without having any external dependencies such as operating systems or databases required by other languages such as Java or C++ (though these may still be useful). 

Erlang also includes support for message passing between processes; this allows developers who are familiar with functional programming languages such as Haskell (which uses immutable state) but don’t necessarily have much experience working with multi-core machines like an AWS instance where each virtual CPU has its own memory space but shares resources like disk drives etcetera so there isn’t much difference between creating large projects using Haskell versus ClojureScript since both uses shared libraries rather than kernel modules like C++ does!

• Phoenix Web Framework and Plug Ecosystem

Phoenix is a web framework that is based on the Elixir programming language. It was created by Max Stoiber and Phil Haack at Klassen, who are also the founders of Plataformatec.

Phoenix uses Erlang under the hood, which provides several benefits:

Performance – The Erlang VM has been designed to be fast and efficient at handling large amounts of data, so it’s an excellent choice for building high-performance web applications with lots of concurrent connections or requests per second (RPS).

Fault tolerance – By using fault tolerant systems like RDBMSes or message queues, you can build highly scalable applications that won’t crash if their underlying hardware fails catastrophically.

• The BEAM VM and Erlang Ecosystem

Elixir is a functional language. It’s a tiny, single-threaded, and concurrent programming language that runs on the BEAM VM (Erlang VM). The Erlang Ecosystem is made up of multiple libraries and tools, which can be used to build your application or module. The Elixir ecosystem has become popular among developers who want to build scalable applications with fault tolerance and parallelism.

Elixir runs on top of BEAMVM which is a virtual machine built specifically for running Elixir applications without any additional configuration needed besides setting up your GIT repository.

Conclusion:

Elixir is a  functional and dynamic language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. The syntax of Elixir is similar to Ruby but with many differences: for example, there are no curly braces; instead, you use square brackets ({}). Also, there’s no semicolon at the end of every line—everything after an expression is treated as part of it; if you have multiple expressions they will be joined together using pipes (|).