Over the last six months I’ve been working with Elixir every day, non-stop. I’m lucky. I’m also semi-obsessed. Elixir has changed the way I think about programming and software in general. I’ve ditched side projects I’ve been working on for months so I can rebuild them in Elixir. I changed editors completely (Vim to Spacemacs) because of Elixir support with Alchemist. People keep asking me what’s so special about it and I keep saying “I wish I had an hour to just sit here and show you some beautiful Elixir”. And now I get my wish - I have that hour. In this talk I will show you some things that make me very, very happy about Elixir and the Erlang VM.