June 03, 2025

255: OTP 28 and Vibe Coding Phoenix Apps

32 minutes

News includes the major OTP 28 release with priority messages functionality, ElixirConf EU 2025 videos starting to appear including Chris McCord's keynote on his new phoenix.new service and James Arthur's introduction of Phoenix Sync for real-time database synchronization, the EEF board election results and their new role as a CVE Numbering Authority for the Hex ecosystem, upcoming co-located hooks and macro components in LiveView, updates to the Elixir Lua package and MDEx with its new Markdown sigil, a new convention for AI-friendly usage_rules.md files in hex packages, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/255

Elixir Community News

https://www.honeybadger.io/ – Honeybadger.io is sponsoring today's show! Keep your apps healthy and your customers happy with Honeybadger! It's free to get started, and setup takes less than five minutes.

https://www.erlang.org/news/180 – OTP 28 release announcement with new priority messages functionality and SBOM support

https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0076 – EEP 76 specification for priority messages in OTP 28

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z – ElixirConf EU 2025 YouTube playlist with conference videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojL_VHc4gLk&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=3 – Chris McCord's keynote "Code Generators are Dead. Long Live Code Generators"

https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1923417060593356889 – Chris McCord's announcement about phoenix.new paid service

https://phoenix.new/ – Chris McCord's new phoenix.new paid service at Fly.io

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IWShnVuRCg&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=2 – James Arthur's keynote "Introducing Phoenix Sync" from ElixirConf EU

https://github.com/electric-sql/phoenix_sync/ – Phoenix Sync GitHub repository for real-time sync to Postgres-backed Phoenix apps

https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_sync/readme.html – Phoenix Sync documentation on HexDocs

https://github.com/josevalim/sync – José Valim's sync project that inspired Phoenix Sync

https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025-results – EEF board election results for Cohort C

https://x.com/TheErlef/status/1924531926008004633 – EEF Twitter announcement of election results

https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025-candidates – Information about the EEF election candidates

https://erlef.org/blog/security/eef-cna-announcement – EEF becomes CVE Numbering Authority for Hex and BEAM ecosystem

https://github.com/erlef-cna – EEF CNA GitHub organization

https://cna.erlef.org/ – EEF CNA website

https://github.com/surface-ui/surface – Surface UI project for server-side rendering components

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/3810 – Draft PR for co-located hooks and macro components in LiveView

https://github.com/tv-labs/lua – Elixir Lua package v0.2.x release by TvLabs

https://x.com/davydog187/status/1925186045156463034 – Dave's tweet about ElixirConf EU Luerl talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBBoXXH_98 – "Lua on the BEAM" talk by Dave Lucia & Robert Virding

https://discord.gg/6Ukp9vpj – Discord link for Lua community

https://x.com/germsvel/status/1922602086065148093 – German Velasco's video highlighting LiveDebugger tool

https://bsky.app/profile/germsvel.com/post/3lp4snnkpj225 – German Velasco's BlueSky post about LiveDebugger

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/249 – Thinking Elixir episode 249 featuring LiveDebugger discussion

https://hexdocs.pm/mdex/MDEx.Sigil.html – MDEx v0.7 documentation for new ~MD sigil

https://hexdocs.pm/autumn – Autumn syntax highlighter package that works with MDEx

https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex_mermaid – MDEx Mermaid plugin for adding mermaid support to Markdown

https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lpofyykwds2i – Zach Daniel's BlueSky post about usage_rules.md convention

https://hexdocs.pm/usage_rules – Usage rules package documentation

https://github.com/ash-project/usage_rules/ – Usage rules GitHub repository

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/ – Microsoft announcement about Windows Subsystem for Linux going open source

https://www.zdnet.com/article/believe-it-or-not-microsoft-just-announced-a-linux-distribution-service-heres-why/ – ZDNet article explaining Microsoft's Linux strategy and Azure statistics

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