Elixir [http://elixir-lang.org/]: Your Next Addiction 2014-04-08 by Daniel Farrell [http://danielfarrell.com/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/174714142/]) Sample code [https://github.com/danielfarrell/stalkme] from talk is on Github. Functional Programming * programming == data transformation * first class functions * immutable data * allows for massively parallel execution * recursive