ElixirConf 2016 - String Theory by Nathan Long & James Edward Gray II

String Theory by Nathan Long & James Edward Gray II Elixir’s strings and iolists enable great features, but do you understand them? Why is a string a binary, and what do the numbers in the binary have to do with Elixir’s great Unicode support? What are iolists, and how do they enable efficient template rendering? In this talk, you’ll learn how to: Understand the relationship between bitstrings, binaries, and strings Properly compare and dissect UTF8 strings Efficiently build string output to write to a fil