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Installing Elixir on Mac M1 July 2021

Installing Elixir on Mac M1 July 2021

I recently got excited about functional programming and wanted to learn more and then my friend recommended I check out Elixir. I tried to install it and got stuck for so many hours that I nearly gave up. Nearly. Here's how I pulled it together, if I remember the steps correctly

How it didn't work

First, I was so excited that I just jumped on youtube and followed a tutorial from 2017 that started with installing Erlang from their official homepage. That didn't quite work once I tried brew install elixir so I got rid of that erlang again and installed the whole thing through homebrew. This continued to give me Segmentation Faults every time I started erl or elixir -v.