Elixir, created in 2012 by José Valim, is a functional, concurrent, and compiled programming language that offers interoperability with Erlang and features such as metaprogramming and high scalability. It is widely used by companies like Discord and Slack for web applications and real-time systems, but is not ideal for CPU-bound tasks. The document also discusses the actor model, a key concurrency feature in Erlang/OTP, detailing how actors provide isolated state and message-passing communication.
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