January 20, 2026

288: 15 Years of Elixir and Full Type Inference

26 minutes

News includes Elixir's 15th anniversary celebrated with an early v1.20 release candidate featuring type inference for all constructs, Chris McCord's launch of Sprites.dev for hardware-isolated execution environments at Fly.io, MDEx v0.11.0 with a new website and Phoenix Components support, Ex_cldr 3.0 announced as Localize with runtime-only configuration, Gust workflow engine as an Airflow alternative built in Elixir, LiveDebugger v0.5.0 with Dead LiveViews debugging, LiveVue v1.0 stable release bringing Vue.js integration to Phoenix LiveView, Goatmire conference returning in 2026, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/288

Elixir Community News

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January 9th, 2026 marked 15 years since Elixir's first commit

https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/2009702354527088669 – José Valim's tweet celebrating 15 years of Elixir

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/01/09/type-inference-of-all-and-next-15/ – Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months - announcement blog post for Elixir v1.20 RC with type inference for all constructs

https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/2010660222906597572 – José Valim's post about community feedback on the type system inference release candidate - it's faster, finds more bugs and dead code

https://nitter.net/chris_mccord/status/2009688571037339922 – Chris McCord's announcement of Sprites.dev

https://sprites.dev/ – Sprites.dev - hardware-isolated execution environments for arbitrary code launched at Fly.io

https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1qb0scq/mdex_fast_and_extensible_markdown/ – Reddit discussion of MDEx v0.11.0 update

https://mdelixir.dev/ – New MDEx website with features, examples, and motivation behind the project

https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – MDEx changelog for v0.11.0

https://hexdocs.pm/mdex/phoenix_live_view_heex.html – Livebook example showing MDEx usage with Phoenix HEEx components

https://elixirforum.com/t/localize-next-generation-localisation-ex-cldr-v3-0/73933 – Announcement of Localize (Ex_cldr 3.0) - next generation localisation

https://github.com/elixir-localize – Elixir Localize GitHub organization

https://github.com/marciok/gust – Gust - a task orchestration system built in Elixir, designed to be efficient, fast and developer-friendly

https://elixirforum.com/t/gust-a-task-orchestration-system-built-in-elixir/73628 – ElixirForum announcement post for Gust workflow engine

https://elixirforum.com/t/gust-a-task-orchestration-system-built-in-elixir/73628/8 – Comment from Gust creator explaining it as an Airflow alternative for DAG orchestration

https://nitter.net/swmansionelixir/status/2010754348536709355 – LiveDebugger v0.5.0 announcement with Dead LiveViews section for debugging crashes

https://nitter.net/jskalc/status/2008559959781634404 – LiveVue v1.0 release announcement

https://skalecki.dev/blog/story-of-live-vue – Story of LiveVue - announcement blog post

https://github.com/Valian/live_vue – LiveVue GitHub project - Vue.js + Phoenix LiveView integration

https://livevue.skalecki.dev/examples/ – LiveVue examples website showing different usage patterns

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lawik_goatmire-elixir-nervesconf-eu-activity-7416738610944811008-5Xwh – Lars Wikman's announcement that Goatmire will happen again (Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2026)

https://www.goatmire.com/ – Goatmire conference website with signup list for notifications

https://bsky.app/profile/pragprog.com/post/3mbfgw6zlfs2n – Announcement that the Ash Framework book is Pragmatic Programmers' #1 best seller this year

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