37: The Lambda Days Conference and Elixir

After covering the news, we share a live recording of the show from the Lambda Days conference. It was a lot of fun! We covered topics like learning and teaching Elixir, functional programming, strengths of Elixir over Erlang, the developer tooling, why Elixir is awesome even when not building distributed systems, and much more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/37 Elixir Community News https://dashbit.co/blog/nx-numerical-elixir-is-now-publicly-available – Project Nx has finally gone public! https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx – Project source on Github https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/Q4ZnK-R59-4/m/Uc2xOJKlAwAJ – Proposal to add before_suite to ExUnit https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_examples/tree/main/hello_zig – Zig Lang is now available for use on Nerves official platforms https://gleam.run/news/gleam-v0.14-released/ – Gleam Lang 0.14 was released https://hex.pm/packages/prom_ex – PromEx library leaves beta and releases v1.0 https://www.beamrad.io/ – New BeamRad.io Elixir and BEAM focused podcast https://github.com/erlang-ls/erlang_ls/releases/tag/0.10.0 – ElixirLS v0.10.0 released https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/2960 – OTP 24 get faster float to string algorithm Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2021 https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-v-america-2021/ – Code Beam V America 2021 Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward