February 22, 2022

87: Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 2

1 hour 6 minutes

José Valim returns to continue with part 2 of our 5 part series as we count down to the 10 year anniversary of the Elixir project we know and love. In Part 2, we talk through the Elixir releases of 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6. We still manage to sneak in discussions about some new things in Elixir 1.13 and the upcoming release. We go deeper on GenStage, Registry, and growing up through production releases. We also learn about the history with unicode while touching on the recent unicode security issues that hit everywhere. We get some behind the scenes insights about the Elixir formatter and the complex logic required to bring ExUnit's pretty diff features, and much more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/87

Elixir Community News

https://twitter.com/importantshock/status/1491835261705199620 – GitHub code search based navigation now works with Elixir

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1491833991401463809 – José Valim credits the work and says the 10th language to get this feature.

https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/445 – GitHub public roadmap item - Advisory Database, Elixir/mix support

https://github.com/dependabot/elixir-security-advisories – Dependabot Elixir security advisories

https://github.com/readme/featured/server-side-languages-for-front-end – GitHub published an article feature Elixir and LiveView

https://anchor.fm/helloerlang – New Erlang focused podcast called “Hello Erlang!”

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1492464780480856069 – New versions of makeup, flow, nimble_parsec, nimble_pool, and plug were released.

https://github.com/elixir-makeup/makeup – Makeup is a "generic syntax highlighter" used in ExDoc

https://github.com/dashbitco/nimble_parsec

https://github.com/dashbitco/flow

https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug

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

Discussion Resources

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/82 – Part 1 - Episode 82

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.4/CHANGELOG.md – CHANGELOG v1.4

https://elixirforum.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel

https://hexdocs.pm/flow/Flow.html

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Task.html#async_stream/3

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Registry.html

https://github.com/bitwalker/distillery

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.5/CHANGELOG.md – CHANGELOG v1.5

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/v1.3/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix 1.3 released

https://trojansource.codes/

https://hexdocs.pm/iex/IEx.Pry.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4uE-jTB_Uk – The Feature That No One Knew About in Elixir 1.5 - José Valim

https://github.com/rrrene/credo

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.6/CHANGELOG.md – CHANGELOG v1.6

https://medium.com/@JakeBeckerCode/introducing-elixirls-the-elixir-language-server-d449bbbdfc01

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Guest Information

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

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

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

https://erlef.org/news/ – The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation news

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir

Email the show - [email protected]

Mark Ericksen - @brainlid

David Bernheisel - @bernheisel

Cade Ward - @cadebward