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Elixir is designed for building fast, scalable and maintainable applications. Phoenix is web framework written in Elixir and it draws a lot of concepts from popular Django or Ruby on Ruby on Rails. Elixir ships with Mix which is built-in tool that helps compiling, generating and testing application, getting dependencies etc. Elixir by Dave Thomas is recommendation, recommended programming language for wider audience. Elixir is written on top of Erlang and runs on BEAM(Erlang VM). Elixir is a great combination of Elixir and Phoenix.