Acknowledgments

I wouldn’t have anything to write about without José Valim and all the hard-working developers who are involved in creating Elixir and building its ecosystem. And without the hard work of Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding, Mike Williams, and all the brilliant people who were part of creating Erlang and OTP, there would be no Elixir.

I originally intended to self-publish this book, back in 2013. During the writing process, I needed reviewers to keep me honest. I reached out to the (very young) Elixir community and also to other developers via the book mailing list, fully expecting a dismal response. Instead, the response was incredible. So, to Chris Bailey, J. David Eisenberg, Jeff Smith, Johnny Winn, Julien Blanchard, Kristian Rasmussen, Low Kian Seong, Marcello Seri, Markus Mais, Matthew Margolis, Michael Simpson, Norberto Ortigoza, Paulo Alves Pereira, Solomon White, Takayuki Matsubara, and Tallak Tveide, a big “Thank you!” for sharing your time and energy. Thanks, too, to the reviewers for Manning, including Amit Lamba, Anthony Cramp, Bryce Darling, Dane Balia, Jeff Smith, Jim Amrhein, Joel Clermont, Joel Kotarski, Kosmas Chatzimichalis, Matthew Margolis, Nhu Nguyen, Philip White, Roberto Infante, Ryan Pulling, Sergio Arbeo, Thomas O’Rourke, Thomas Peklak, Todd Fine, and Unnikrishnan Kumar.