December 08, 2020

25: Improving developer experience with Marlus Saraiva

52 minutes

We talk with Marlus Saraiva about three big projects he is a part of. All of which are around improving the developer experience in Elixir! We start with Broadway, a library that makes working with GenStage even easier. We learn about his project Surface that brings a more react-like component model to LiveView. We then talk about his work on ElixirSense and ElixirLS which are used by editors to give code completion and documentation help. He covers where he thinks web development went wrong and what he thinks Elixir can do to improve it. We also cover where things may go with Surface and ElixirLS in the future, and much more!

Please note that this interview with Marlus was recorded before our interview with Chris McCord. When Marlus mentions that they were waiting for a soon-to-come LiveView release, that is the 0.15.0 release. The Surface 0.1.0 is the release he was talking about.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/25

Elixir Community News

https://claudio-ortolina.org/posts/tips-for-finch-and-telemetry/ – More of Claudio's work around creating custom LiveDashboard pages

https://github.com/doawoo/teex – Teex - Use Elixir like a system scripting language

https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler/ – Zigler library highlight

https://ziglang.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM_tO8hQgKA – Zigler video showing catching memory leaks

http://blog.erlang.org/the-road-to-the-jit/ – Erlang Blog post on the history and future of Erlang and performance.

https://github.com/msaraiva/surface/blob/v0.1.1/CHANGELOG.md – Discussed Surface with Chris McCord in last week’s episode. They had a new 0.1.0 release

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/24/discord-is-close-to-closing-a-round-that-would-value-the-company-at-up-to-7b/ – Discord closing a funding round

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/10/08/real-time-communication-at-scale-with-elixir-at-discord/ – Discord Elixir case study

https://dashbit.co/blog/tests-with-warnings-as-errors – Dashbit blog post detailing making warnings in tests fail a CI build

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/dashbitco/broadway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPu-P97-cbE – ElixirConf 2019 presentation

https://youtu.be/tPu-P97-cbE?t=1935 – Portion of Broadway showing live updating of worker tree

https://github.com/msaraiva/surface

https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls

https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir_sense

https://elixirforum.com/t/introducing-elixirls-the-elixir-language-server/5857/103

https://github.com/beam-telemetry/telemetry

https://github.com/dashbitco/broadway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPu-P97-cbE

http://surface-demo.msaraiva.io/

https://storybook.js.org/

https://github.com/lukaszsamson

https://github.com/axelson

https://github.com/elixir-lsp – The Elixir Language Server Protocol Github organization

https://elixirforum.com/

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/MarlusSaraiva – on Twitter

https://github.com/msaraiva – on Github

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December 08, 2020

25: Improving developer experience with Marlus Saraiva

52 minutes

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/25

Elixir Community News

https://claudio-ortolina.org/posts/tips-for-finch-and-telemetry/ – More of Claudio's work around creating custom LiveDashboard pages

https://github.com/doawoo/teex – Teex - Use Elixir like a system scripting language

https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler/ – Zigler library highlight

https://ziglang.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM_tO8hQgKA – Zigler video showing catching memory leaks

http://blog.erlang.org/the-road-to-the-jit/ – Erlang Blog post on the history and future of Erlang and performance.

https://github.com/msaraiva/surface/blob/v0.1.1/CHANGELOG.md – Discussed Surface with Chris McCord in last week’s episode. They had a new 0.1.0 release

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/24/discord-is-close-to-closing-a-round-that-would-value-the-company-at-up-to-7b/ – Discord closing a funding round

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/10/08/real-time-communication-at-scale-with-elixir-at-discord/ – Discord Elixir case study

https://dashbit.co/blog/tests-with-warnings-as-errors – Dashbit blog post detailing making warnings in tests fail a CI build

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/dashbitco/broadway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPu-P97-cbE – ElixirConf 2019 presentation

https://youtu.be/tPu-P97-cbE?t=1935 – Portion of Broadway showing live updating of worker tree

https://github.com/msaraiva/surface

https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls

https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir_sense