October 07, 2025

273: Does the Language Really Matter?

39 minutes

News includes Chris McCord releasing a shell-based web browser tool for LLMs extracted from phoenix.new, a new schema validation library called Zoi inspired by JavaScript's Zod, AshDiagram for generating beautiful visualizations of AshFramework applications, the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation's progress toward EU Cyber Resilience Act readiness with their Ægis security initiative, PostgreSQL 18.0 release with Index Skip Scans and async I/O improvements, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 release, IEEE's Top Programming Languages 2025 list and a discussion about whether AI-assisted coding means the end of programming language rankings, and more!

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https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1972721288029548924 – Chris McCord announces the web shell command for LLM web browsing

https://github.com/chrismccord/web – Web - shell command for simple LLM web browsing that converts web pages to markdown, executes js, and interacts with pages

https://hexdocs.pm/zoi/Zoi.html – Zoi - a new schema validation library for Elixir inspired by the popular JavaScript library Zod

https://github.com/phcurado/zoi – Zoi GitHub repository

https://zod.dev/ – Zod - the JavaScript library that inspired Zoi

https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lzwvkdlsw22c – Announcement of AshDiagram by Jonatan Männchen

https://hexdocs.pm/ash_diagram/AshDiagram.html – AshDiagram - library for generating beautiful diagrams to visualize AshFramework applications including Entity Relationship, Class, C4 Architecture, and Policy diagrams

https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_diagram – AshDiagram GitHub repository with examples of generated diagrams

https://bsky.app/profile/theerlef.bsky.social/post/3lzypq74brc25 – EEF Security Update announcement

https://security.erlef.org/assets/aegis/updates/2025-q3.pdf – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation's Ægis Initiative Q3 2025 security update document

https://erlef.org/blog/eef/beam-worm – EEF blog post about BEAM security initiatives

https://cyber-resilience-act.com/ – Information about the EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)

https://cyber-resilience-act.com/cra/chapter-2/article-24/ – CRA Article 24 covering requirements for open-source software stewards

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5 – Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#200 – Claude Code 2.0 update with new native VS Code extension

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-released-3142/ – PostgreSQL 18.0 release announcement

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/get-excited-about-postgres-18 – Crunchy Data blog post about PostgreSQL 18 features

https://x.com/vlad_mihalcea/status/1972198023200440720 – PostgreSQL 18 now supports Index Skip Scans and async I/O when scanning pages from disk

https://bsky.app/profile/oban.pro/post/3lzq2hq7uec2r – Oban team shares what PostgreSQL 18 means for the Oban project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlAf9jRMIR0 – Southern California Linux Expo talk diving into PostgreSQL 18 details

https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2025 – IEEE's Top Programming Languages 2025 list

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/28/1823244/will-ai-mean-bring-an-end-to-top-programming-language-rankings – Discussion about whether AI means the end for top programming language rankings

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