[8][9] José Valim created the Elixir programming language as a research and development project at Plataformatec.

It uses features of Ruby, Erlang, and Clojure to develop a high-concurrency and low-latency language.

[12] In 2021, the Numerical Elixir effort was announced with the goal of bringing machine learning, neural networks, GPU compilation, data processing, and computational notebooks to the Elixir ecosystem.

Classic Hello world example: Pipe operator: Pattern matching (a.k.a.

destructuring): Pattern matching with multiple clauses: List comprehension: Asynchronously reading files with streams: Multiple function bodies with guards: Relational databases with the Ecto library: Sequentially spawning a thousand processes: Asynchronously performing a task: [citation needed]