May 13, 2025

253: Tidewave Triumphs and App Store Rebellions

23 minutes

News includes growing excitement around Tidewave for Elixir with users sharing success stories and integration tips, preparation for Elixir 1.19's deprecation of regex in module attributes, LiveViewNative launching a new "OTP Interop" organization focused on enabling offline functionality, and a major U.S. court ruling against Apple's App Store policies that opens new payment options for iOS developers, creating opportunities for services like Stripe to offer more competitive alternatives to Apple's 30% commission, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/253

Elixir Community News

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https://x.com/ba_wolf/status/1918008345862049820 – Bryant shared on X that Tidewave pairs well with Oban jobs, allowing cursors to run jobs and check status with errors stored in the record.

https://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lo7fc7jy262n – A user found Tidewave for Elixir promising, noting it solved a bug that Claude couldn't by using the package_docs_search tool.

https://bsky.app/profile/petros.software/post/3lohcby7frv22 – Despite the AI revolution, programmers still need to read code, making human-friendly languages like Elixir and Phoenix important choices.

https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3loamzmazlk2s – Tidewave.ai can now be installed through the Ash HQ installer, with Zach Daniel teasing more information in coming weeks.

https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/tips_and_tricks.html#configure-your-prompts – Tips and tricks documentation for improving your Tidewave experience, including prompt configuration.

https://geekmonkey.org/detecting-deprecated-regex-module-attributes-in-elixir-with-credo/ – Fabian Becker's blog post showing how to create a Credo rule to detect regex module attributes that will be deprecated in Elixir 1.19.

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/14381 – PR explaining the issue with regex module attributes and introducing the workaround for the upcoming Elixir 1.19 deprecation.

https://bsky.app/profile/bcardarella.bsky.social/post/3lo2rsc3th22h – Brian Cardarella shared that LiveViewNative started a new "OTP Interop" GitHub organization to extract work that enables offline mode.

https://github.com/otp-interop – The new OTP Interop GitHub organization housing projects to improve Elixir's interoperability with other platforms.

https://github.com/otp-interop/swift-erlang-actor-system – Project providing Erlang/Elixir integration for Swift Distributed Actors.

https://github.com/otp-interop/elixir_pack – Tool to build Elixir applications for iOS, part of the OTP Interop initiative.

https://bsky.app/profile/bcardarella.bsky.social/post/3lo4shx2cpk2g – LiveViewNative now supports Apple App Store's new allowances for outside transaction services like Stripe.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-judge-rules-apple-violated-order-reform-app-store-2025-04-30/ – Reuters report on US judge ruling that Apple violated the order to reform its App Store policies.

https://www.pymnts.com/apple/2025/apple-appeals-after-judge-finds-company-disobeyed-ruling/ – Coverage of Apple appealing after judge found the company disobeyed the previous ruling about App Store competition.

https://www.techspot.com/news/107752-court-orders-apple-stop-blocking-competition-app-store.html – Court orders Apple to stop blocking competition in the App Store, forcing changes to payment systems.

https://docs.stripe.com/sdks/ios – Stripe's iOS SDK documentation for building payments into iOS apps, relevant after the App Store ruling.

https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones – Related post about Apple's history of restrictive practices, in this case with Pebble smartwatches.

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