# elixir-lang/elixir

Simple from zero to scale

Repository: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/elixir
Homepage: https://elixir-lang.org/
Language: Elixir
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-25T21:55:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 96, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5715, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 29, "gap_med": 13, "n_releases_24m": 20}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 26613, forks 3669 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:47.025261+00:00)

## What it is
Elixir is a dynamic, functional programming language built on the Erlang VM (BEAM), designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. It ships with a standard library, build tool (Mix), test framework (ExUnit), interactive shell (IEx), templating (EEx), and a gradual type system.

## Use cases
- build scalable web applications
- learn a functional programming language
- build fault-tolerant distributed systems
- real-time messaging and chat backends
- embedded and IoT development
- machine learning with GPU support via Numerical Elixir

## When to choose
- you need highly concurrent, fault-tolerant services on the BEAM
- you want a productive language with built-in tooling (Mix, ExUnit, formatter)
- you are building real-time or message-oriented systems
- you want a language that scales from solo projects to large teams

## When to avoid
- you need a language with a huge general-purpose ecosystem outside web/distributed domains
- your team depends on CPU-bound single-threaded performance rather than concurrency
- you require tight low-level control or C-level performance

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: programming-language, compiler, build-tool, testing, templating, logging, package-manager, formatter
- domain: programming-languages, web-development, microservices, developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: windows, bsd, cross-platform, cli
- tags: elixir, erlang, beam, functional-programming, concurrency, fault-tolerance, mix, exunit, scalable-applications, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- elixir-lang/elixir (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:47.025261+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:55:50.950259+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:47.025261+00:00, sha 25a93da16aef)
  - homepage: https://elixir-lang.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T07:52:06.337198+00:00, sha 1d78f2c87b5b)
  - site_page: https://elixir-lang.org/install (fetched 2026-08-29T07:52:06.340377+00:00, sha 036479bee24c)
  - site_page: https://elixir-lang.org/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T07:52:06.342985+00:00, sha acb15941abed)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.