r/elixir is a subreddit with 39k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses elixir, looking, phoenix, beam, and performance, and they frequently recommend/review ide, learning resources, and libraries.
Subreddit for the Elixir programming language, a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. Learn more at https://elixir-lang.org.
Popular Themes in r/elixir
#1
Advice Requests
: "was reading the 2007 amazon dynamo paper to learn more about distributed systems. and implemented it in elixir to make the learning concrete. also wrote a blog post on it"
7 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "I built a realtime "Who Is Hiring" dashboard for Elixir remote positions"
4 posts
#3
Ideas
: "Hyper - distributed Firecracker microVM orchestrator written in Elixir"
4 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "I published my first libraries to Hex today"
2 posts
#5
Money Talk
: "Elixir salary data from 216 remote job listings (Dec 2025 - Feb 2026)"
1 post
#6
Opportunities
: "Elixir job market is a desert right now, what happens?"
1 post
#7
News
: "WhatsApp ran the BEAM JIT from master in production 9 months before OTP 24 shipped - what did that actually look like from the inside?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/elixir
#1
Elixir
: "Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language"
71 posts
#2
Looking
6 posts
#3
Phoenix
: "How well Agentic tools produce Elixir & Phoenix code"
4 posts
#4
Beam
: "ex_drone v0.1.0 — Beam-native drone control for Elixir"
4 posts
#5
Performance
3 posts
#6
Docker
3 posts
#7
Tui
: "Got tired of opening the browser for hex.pm, so I built a Tui"
3 posts
#8
Learning
: "Learning through building"
3 posts
#9
Building
: "Learning through Building"
3 posts
#10
Podcast
: "[Podcast] Thinking Elixir 309: The Final Episode"
3 posts
Products Discussed in r/elixir
Ide
14 reviews
#1
Visual Studio Code
4.4★ from 5 reviews
#2
Zed
4.8★ from 4 reviews
#3
VSCode
4.0★ from 2 reviews
Learning Resources
5 reviews
#1
Manning Publications
5.0★ from 1 review
#2
Pragmatic Bookshelf
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
runelixir.com
4.0★ from 1 review
Libraries
3 reviews
#1
Fluxon UI
4.0★ from 1 review
#2
Daisy
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
Tailwind UI
4.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/elixir
#1
gleam
: "A Phoenix-inspired web framework for Gleam (Glimr 1.0.0)"
1 post
Member Growth in r/elixir
Yearly
+4k members(10.9%)
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Last updated: July 22, 2026