I've had Elixir on by backlog of languages to play around with for a while now. This weekend I actually got a chance to sit down and poke around for a while. It was really enjoyable, love the tight integration of pattern matching. The ecosystem surrounding the language also seems very nice: The REPL, the mix build tool, and the nice integration with unit testing, are all very attractive features of the platform.
I took the chance to write up my beginning experience playing with the language, trying my best not to look at the docs. You can find the write up here: http://bjg.io/learning-elixir/
There also seem to a bunch of existing resources for getting started:
- http://elixir-lang.org/getting_started/1.html
- https://howistart.org/posts/elixir/1
- http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/elixir/