June 01, 2023

Chris McCord and Jason Stiebs on the Future of Phoenix

58 minutes

Phoenix core team members Chris McCord and Jason Stiebs join Elixir Wizards Sundi Myint and Owen Bickford the growth of Phoenix and LiveView, the latest updates, and what they're excited to see in the future. They express excitement for the possibilities of machine learning, AI, and distributed systems and how these emerging technologies will enhance the user experience of Elixir and LiveView applications in the next decade.

Key Topics Discussed in this Episode:

How community contributions and feedback help improve Phoenix LiveView

The addition of function components, declarative assigns, HEEx, and streams

Why Ecto changesets should be used as "fire and forget" data structures

Excitement about machine learning and AI with libraries like NX

The possibility of distributed systems and actors in the future

Verifying and solving issues in the Phoenix and LiveView issue trackers

Why marketing plays a part in the adoption and mindshare of Phoenix

How streams provide a primitive for arbitrarily large dynamic lists

Elixir VM's ability to scale to millions of connections

A creative use of form inputs for associations with dynamic children

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Fly Site https://fly.io/

Keynote: The Road To LiveView 1.0 by Chris McCord | ElixirConf EU 2023

Keynote: I Was Wrong About LiveView by Jason Stiebs | ElixirConf 2022

Phoenix Site https://www.phoenixframework.org/

Phoenix Github https://github.com/phoenixframework

Two-Story, 10-Room Purple Martin House

Blog: The Road to 2 Million Websocket Connections in Phoenix

Raxx Elixir Webserver Interface https://hexdocs.pm/raxx/0.4.1/readme.html

Livebook Site https://livebook.dev/

Sundi’s 6’x 6’ Phoenix painting

Surface on Hex https://hex.pm/packages/surface

Axon Deep Learning Framework https://hexdocs.pm/axon/Axon.html

Nx Numerical Elixir https://hexdocs.pm/nx/intro-to-nx.html

Phoenix PubSub https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_pubsub/Phoenix.PubSub.html

Jason Stiebs on Twitter https://twitter.com/peregrine

Jason Stiebs on Mastodon https://merveilles.town/@peregrine

Special Guests: Chris McCord and Jason Stiebs.

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