Chapter 5Making the Functional Transition

You’ve made the business case for Elixir, and started shaping your team with the right building blocks for personal growth and consistency. You have read the getting started guide, consulted the documentation, and reviewed some of the many books available, yet something is still missing. That’s only natural.

If you and your team are familiar with Elixir and functional programming, you might skip ahead to the next chapter but we know from our research that a fair number of our readers are not quite comfortable with Elixir. Here’s what we mean. If you’ve ever watched a non-native speaker learn any spoken language, you probably saw them borrow native language concepts that didn’t quite fit. On this team, ...

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