January 18, 2022

82: Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 1

1 hour

José Valim joins us to kick off part 1 of a 5 part series as we count down to the 10 year anniversary of the Elixir project we know and love. In Part 1, we talk through the Elixir releases of 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3. We cover the significant changes in each release, what instigated the change, the thinking behind it, and more. We cover some long-present features that people may not be aware of and recall what these changes meant to us.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/82

Elixir Community News

https://dashbit.co/blog/elixir-and-machine-learning-nx-v0.1 – Nx (Numerical Elixir) v0.1 released

https://twitter.com/peterlodewijk/status/1479838598790893571 – Project called Numerl is announced for Erlang.

https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/Losseau_45781400_2022.pdf – PDF to the Numerl paper titled "Efficient Vector and Matrix Computation for Erlang"

https://twitter.com/theerlef/status/1480632969140310017 – Lambda Days conference moved to July 2022

https://github.com/KronicDeth/intellij-elixir/releases/tag/v12.1.0 – Updates to the IntelliJ plugin that supports Elixir

https://twitter.com/kronicdeth/status/1479538579298820098 – IntelliJ Elixir plugin tweet announcement

https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v0270-2022-01-11 – ExDoc v0.27 was released

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1480815810503495683 – Tweet threat about ExDoc v0.27 showing features

https://hexdocs.pm/nx/Nx.html – Nx library docs using the new ExDoc

https://twitter.com/brooklinjmyers/status/1480614054360018951 – Brooklin Myers announced he's joining DockYard to help create an Elixir Developer Bootcamp

https://www.elixirnewbie.com/ – Brooklin Myers Elixir Newbie Podcast

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.1/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for v1.1

https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/yd90kWN99FE/m/x2WZu7iqPcgJ – Discussion thread about maps in Elixir

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.2/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for v1.2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X25xOhntr6s – ElixirConf 2015 - Keynote - Elixir Should Take Over the World by Jessica Kerr

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Protocol.html#module-consolidation – Protocol consolidation

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.3/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for v1.3

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.3/CHANGELOG.md#mix-escriptinstall – Mix escript install

mix test --stale

https://elixirforum.com/t/how-to-describe-many-contexts-in-exunit-without-a-hierarchy/1551 – How to Describe Many Contexts in ExUnit without a Hierarchy

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/josevalim – on Twitter

https://github.com/josevalim – on Github

https://dashbit.co/ – Dashbit website and blog

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David Bernheisel - @bernheisel

Cade Ward - @cadebward