June 10, 2025

256: Types, Tools, and Turbo Charging

23 minutes

News includes the Elixir 1.19 RC release featuring up to 4x faster compilation and significant types system improvements, more ElixirConfEU videos including José Valim's keynote on type system updates, the look at the Backpex admin panel for Phoenix LiveView applications, Ash AI's impressive AI integration using the Elixir LangChain library, an informal Elixir Contributors Summit recap from Software Mansion, the Quokka formatter that automatically fixes Credo style code issues, Popcorn's browser-based Elixir implementation with JavaScript interoperability, and the launch of Elixir Observer for better Hex package exploration, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/256

Elixir Community News

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https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir 1.19 RC release with up to 4x faster compilation for large projects, types system updates, and improved pretty printing

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z – ElixirConfEU videos playlist with all 4 keynotes and Lightning Talks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po-ckmSt1gI&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=13 – José Valim's keynote "Type System and Elixir Updates + Extended Q&A"

https://github.com/naymspace/backpex – Backpex - highly customizable administration panel for Phoenix LiveView applications

https://backpex.live/ – Backpex project landing page

https://demo.backpex.live/admin/users – Live demo of Backpex admin panel

https://hexdocs.pm/ash_ai/readme.html – Ash AI documentation - AI implementation for the Ash Framework

https://x.com/ZachSDaniel1/status/1927249155019149409 – Zach Daniel's tweet teasing Ash AI features

https://blog.swmansion.com/elixir-contributor-summit-2025-shaping-the-future-together-at-software-mansion-cc3271a188eb – Blog post about the informal Elixir Contributors Summit held after ElixirConf EU

https://github.com/smartrent/quokka – Quokka - Elixir formatter that combines mix format and mix credo to automatically fix code style issues

https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn – Popcorn - library for running client-side Elixir in browsers with JavaScript interoperability

https://popcorn.swmansion.com/simple_repl/ – Popcorn live demo REPL

https://github.com/atomvm/AtomVM – AtomVM project that Popcorn is based on, compiles to WASM

https://www.mimiquate.com/blog/introducing-elixir-observer-a-better-way-to-explore-elixir-packages – Blog post introducing Elixir Observer for exploring Hex packages

https://elixir-observer.com/ – Elixir Observer website for package exploration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-FsRSDg6Pc – YouTube demo video of Elixir Observer

https://github.com/mimiquate/elixir_observer – Open source GitHub repository for Elixir Observer

https://elixir-observer.com/packages/ecto – Example of Ecto package analysis on Elixir Observer

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