Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Elixir in Action -- Copyright -- brief contents -- contents -- praise for the first edition -- front matter -- preface -- acknowledgments -- about this book -- Who should read this book -- How this book is organized -- About the code -- Book Forum -- about the author -- about the cover illustration -- 1 First steps -- 1.1 About Erlang -- 1.1.1 High availability -- 1.1.2 Erlang concurrency -- 1.1.3 Server-side systems -- 1.1.4 The development platform -- 1.2 About Elixir -- 1.2.1 Code simplification -- 1.2.2 Composing functions -- 1.2.3 The big picture -- 1.3 Disadvantages -- 1.3.1 Speed -- 1.3.2 Ecosystem -- Summary -- 2 Building blocks -- 2.1 The interactive shell -- 2.2 Working with variables -- 2.3 Organizing your code -- 2.3.1 Modules -- 2.3.2 Functions -- 2.3.3 Function arity -- 2.3.4 Function visibility -- 2.3.5 Imports and aliases -- 2.3.6 Module attributes -- 2.3.7 Comments -- 2.4 Understanding the type system -- 2.4.1 Numbers -- 2.4.2 Atoms -- 2.4.3 Tuples -- 2.4.4 Lists -- 2.4.5 Immutability -- 2.4.6 Maps -- 2.4.7 Binaries and bitstrings -- 2.4.8 Strings -- 2.4.9 First-class functions -- 2.4.10 Other built-in types -- 2.4.11 Higher-level types -- 2.4.12 IO lists -- 2.5 Operators -- 2.6 Macros -- 2.7 Understanding the runtime -- 2.7.1 Modules and functions in the runtime -- 2.7.2 Starting the runtime -- Summary -- 3 Control flow -- 3.1 Pattern matching -- 3.1.1 The match operator -- 3.1.2 Matching tuples -- 3.1.3 Matching constants -- 3.1.4 Variables in patterns -- 3.1.5 Matching lists -- 3.1.6 Matching maps -- 3.1.7 Matching bitstrings and binaries -- 3.1.8 Compound matches -- 3.1.9 General behavior -- 3.2 Matching with functions -- 3.2.1 Multiclause functions -- 3.2.2 Guards -- 3.2.3 Multiclause lambdas -- 3.3 Conditionals -- 3.3.1 Branching with multiclause functions -- 3.3.2 Classical branching constructs…”