91: Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 3

José Valim returns to continue with part 3 of our 5 part series as we count down to the 10 year anniversary of the Elixir project we know and love. In Part 3, we talk through the Elixir releases of 1.7, 1.8, and 1.9. We talk about the unification efforts between Elixir and Erlang. These came through changes to error stacktraces, how documentation is stored, a unified logger, and more. We learn how features like Mix.target made a big difference for the Nerves project. We also hear the call for contributors to help bring a few remaining date/time features to Elixir. The big feature in Elixir 1.9 was the addition of deployment releases and the early efforts at managing config for releases. We thought this would be a short episode but found there was a lot to talk about and learn! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/91 Elixir Community News https://github.com/bencheeorg/benchee – Benchee 1.1.0 release https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2022/03/08/benchee-1-1-0-released-why-did-it-take-so-long/ – Blog post on Benchee release and why the release took so long https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1501482561511510018 – ExDoc gets a new minor feature that lets us syntax highlight HEEx templates https://elixirpatterns.dev/ – “Elixir Patterns” book is being pre-launched by the authors, Alex Koutmos and Hugo Baraúna. https://davelucia.com/blog/avro-2.0 – AvroEx 2.0 released https://www.functionalconf.com/ – Functional Conference 2022 - Asia's Premier Functional Programming Conference 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 https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/87 – Part 2 https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.7/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir changelog for v1.7 https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0048 – EEP 48 https://hexdocs.pm/nx/Nx.html https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.8/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir changelog for v1.8 https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Kernel.html#guards – Elixir docs on guards “dunder“ = a Double Underscore https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Protocol.html#derive/3 – Protocol derive https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Inspect.html#module-deriving – Deriving for inspect https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.9/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir changelog for v1.9 https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Schema.html#field/3-options https://hex.pm/packages/date_time_parser https://github.com/bitwalker/distillery – Mix package used for releases before it was built into Elixir. 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 Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!