Just a very simple implementation of a broadcast program I made this program to learn about elixir, and its Actor model. To be honest I think it's quite nice, even though a program like this usually comes with quite a few unexpected difficulties Elixir was able to handle it incredibly gracefully with basically no resistance.

From my first impressions I think Elixir is actually a quite capable language for the purposes of server software - even if it doesn't have the sheer computational speed offered by lower level languages.

As far as first impressions go for a programming language, I think that's excellent.

running/building

Install elixir and its build tool mix through your operating system's package manager, then run mix run.

After the program starts, it will start listening for clients on port 8080. You can connect with netcat or telnet, I haven't yet built a client for this. There is no special protocol, the server simply broadcasts whatever you type (it waits until you finish a full line).

Building a client is left as an exercise for the reader