(Learn you some) LFE

22 March

• Trainer: Robert Virding
• Target Audience: Software Developers and Engineers, with a focus on backend services


• Prerequisites:
• Good programming skills in Erlang or Elixir
• Fluency with OTP
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• Objectives:
• Learn Lisp basics as it applies to Erlang and the BEAM
• Basic/Sequential LFE
• Concurrent and Parallel programming using LFE
• Using OTP from LFE


• Course Outline:
• In this one-day course, students begin by learning the basics of Lisp as it applies to Erlang and OTP, followed by learning how the Erlang concurrency and fault-tolerance are handled in LFE. We conclude by showing how LFE interfaces to OTP and other languages in the Erlang ecosystem.


• The course contains the following topics:
• LFE repl
• Basic datatypes
• Structure of code
• Data Structures (Maps, Records, Binaries)
• Concurrency and error handling in LFE
• Interfacing LFE with OTP
• Lambdas and higher order functions
• Macros