Elixir port of example GO tutorial: geddit. Redditex retrieves the most recent headlines from a given subreddit. redditex is a runnable example assuming you have Elixir installed.

Redditex mostly replicates the behavior found in the Go tutorial exceptions being

• Redditex Item structure does not remap number of comments, instead it uses the same field name found in the Reddit JSON response

• Errors throw a system halt

Both version are great examples for highlighting language features.

With the Elixir version was a exercise for my own personal learning. I borrowed heavily from teachings found in the excellent Programming Elixir book by Dave Thomas. By porting the Go application, I found Elixir

• significantly different paradox for programming. The concepts around pattern matching and pipelines are extremely powerful and work well with this problem.

• well suited to interfacing with HTTP APIs via the HTTPoison library.

• even with the added complexity of functional programming, the solution felt more straight forward than the Dart port.