Maps and Structs

Let’s learn about some of the properties of maps and structs in Elixir.

Introduction

The map has rapidly become the go-to data structure for Elixir programmers. For this lesson, we’re going to treat maps and structs as basically the same thing. In iex, we can see that a struct is implemented as a map. Let’s take a peek under the hood by running the following commands in the iex terminal:

Executable

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