Thinking Elixir Podcast

News includes José Valim announcing that Elixir v1.20 is well underway with full-type inference possibly landing before the end of the year, Gleam v1.14.0-rc1 with fault tolerant type inference and language server improvements, mjml_eex v0.13.0 for creating beautiful email templates, Dashbit's new nimble_zta library for zero trust authentication extracted from Livebook, Björn Gustavsson's ElixirCo...

News includes celebrating Erlang's 27th birthday as open source, results from the Elixir Hub 2025 survey showing strong community growth with over 1000 participants, a fun Govee Lights control library, a new data_migration package for LiveDashboard, Tidewave.ai's impressive accessibility testing and fixing capabilities showing 2x better performance than Claude Code standalone, critical React Serve...

News includes cutting-edge research from José Valim and Guillaume Duboc on the data structures powering Elixir's type system that made v1.19 both stronger and faster than v1.18, Phoenix LiveView v1.1.18 with new conveniences including view transition API support, LiveDebugger's biggest release yet with improved assigns inspection and resource monitoring, a new Nx feature enabling Python-Elixir mod...

News includes Erlang OTP 28.2 release with improvements across the runtime and standard library, a significant update to the Elixir "whois" library for querying domain registration information, Tidewave Web adding Figma support for designer integration, a new KQL (Kibana Query Language) parser library from TvLabs, the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation now publishing vulnerability data directly to OSV.de...

News includes Elixir 1.19.3 point release with enhanced regular expression support in config files, Tidewave Web adding support for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex agents, Hologram's JavaScript porting initiative seeking community help to complete their browser runtime, a new pg_large_objects library for streaming large binary data with Postgres, the experimental playwright_ex library for browser aut...

News includes Chris McCord's FlyDeploy for zero-downtime hot code upgrades on Fly.io, the Elixir GRPC library update with interactive Livebook documentation, ErrorTracker v0.7.0 with LiveView 1.0 support, a new AI-powered terminal emulator called exterm_ai, Horde joining a new GitHub organization focused on distributed systems, SmartLogic's case study using Elixir for real-time air quality monitor...

News includes the Curiosum Elixir survey closing soon, ReqLLM reaching 1.0 with standardized LLM API support across multiple providers, Isaac Yonemoto's Codicil library bringing semantic code understanding to AI assistants through MCP, José Valim teasing Tidewave Web expansion to support Django, Rails, Next.js and other popular frameworks, phoenix_test_playwright adding browser pooling for improve...

News includes a powerful new HexDocs search engine built in Gleam that lets you search across all your project dependencies with mix hex.search, Software Mansion's interactive Elixir Language Tour that runs in the browser via WebASM, Paulo Valente's breakthrough getting Stable Diffusion running on Mac GPUs through EMLX, lessons learned from the AWS outage that left smart beds stuck and overheating...

News includes the major release of Elixir v1.19 with enhanced type checking, broader type inference, and up to 4x faster compilation for large projects, plus the first OpenChain certification bringing more transparency to the BEAM ecosystem. We also cover the Mishka Chelekom Phoenix LiveView component library update for Tailwind 4 support, visual improvements coming to ExDocs admonition blocks, An...

News includes the release of Elixir v1.19.0-rc.2 with impressive deps compile times and optimized set-theoretic type checking, a timeline update on typed structs arriving by next year, the new "mix help app:phoenix" command for building AI Agent context, gRPC library v0.11.0 with client load balancing, ReqCassette for recording test requests, German Velasco's video walkthrough of Phoenix's AGENTS....

News includes the release of Elixir 1.19.0-rc.1 with OTP 28.1+ compatibility and impressive 2.3x faster dependency compilation, JetBrains adopting the open Agent Client Protocol for AI coding agents, an update on LiveView Native's uncertain future, major improvements to the MDex Markdown library including streaming support and Quill delta conversion, Curiosum's comprehensive blog post on their Per...

News includes Chris McCord releasing a shell-based web browser tool for LLMs extracted from phoenix.new, a new schema validation library called Zoi inspired by JavaScript's Zod, AshDiagram for generating beautiful visualizations of AshFramework applications, the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation's progress toward EU Cyber Resilience Act readiness with their Ægis security initiative, PostgreSQL 18.0 rele...

News includes the release of Vault, a lightweight library for process-scoped global data storage that uses the Process Dictionary for immutable context sharing, OTP 28.1 with quantum-resistant ML-DSA cryptographic support and enhanced DNS resolver capabilities, Tidewave Teams launching and Tidewave's new TODO support, AshTypescript for automatic TypeScript type generation from Ash resources with i...

News includes an interactive test runner called mix_test_interactive that brings Jest-style testing to ExUnit, TrieHard - a blazing fast Rust-powered Trie implementation for search and autocomplete functionality, ReqLLM - a new unified library for LLM interactions built on Req, Hologram v0.6.0 bringing production-ready features to the pure Elixir full-stack framework, the successfully funded Rebar...

News includes a Kickstarter campaign to fund Rebar4 development with the goal of making it an official part of the OTP build system, Tidewave Web adding React support and OpenRouter integration for accessing multiple LLM models, Phoenix 1.8.1 release fixing AGENTS.md generation issues, ElixirConf US 2025 videos being slowly released on YouTube including keynotes from José Valim and Chris McCord, a...

News includes the release of Expert, the new official Elixir LSP that's already supported by Zed editor, Tidewave Web getting its first major update with editor integration and notifications, Paulo Valente's handoff library v0.2.0 for distributed graph execution across BEAM nodes, LiveDebugger v0.4.0 with new inspect mode and improved features, fascinating research showing Elixir performing except...

News includes a new library called Lotus and LotusWeb that provides a safe, read-only environment for running SQL analytics queries with organized storage for saved queries. After the news, we had an interview with Mateusz Front about the Popcorn project, which enables Elixir to run in WebAssembly (WASM) in the browser courtesy of AtomVM. We dig into how it works, what it's capable of doing, and w...

News includes the exciting announcement of Tidewave Web, a new AI-powered service that runs locally in your development environment with an AI chat sidebar that can directly interact with and modify your Phoenix and Rails applications. José Valim joins us for a deeper dive into Tidewave as well! We also cover a comprehensive new ElixirLang blog post about interoperability in 2025 that explores all...

News includes the official release of Phoenix 1.8.0 with exciting new features like dark mode themes, streamlined generators, magic links in phx.gen.auth, and AGENTS.md for LLM-assisted development. ElixirLS v0.29.2 with call hierarchy provider and MCP server integration, the new Torus library for seamless PostgreSQL search with Ecto, ThinkingElixir courses becoming completely free and open, a new...

News includes Phoenix LiveView v1.1 being released with exciting new features like colocated JavaScript, portals for teleporting content, keyed comprehensions, and improved change tracking, Stack Overflow Survey 2025 results showing Elixir as the third most admired language and Phoenix as the most admired web framework for the third year running, Peter Solnica announcing a new high-level relation...

News includes Phoenix v1.8 shipping with an AGENTS markdown file for new apps to enhance coding agent experiences, Popcorn bringing Elixir to the browser through WebAssembly with no installation required, LiveVue v0.6.0 with 90% payload size reduction through JSON Patch operations, an awesome LiveView development tip for hot-reloading code changes while preserving LiveView state, MDEx v0.8 adding...

News includes the BEAM runtime fitting into just 16MB for the GRiSP Nano prototype, the BBC using Elixir to serve most of their web and mobile traffic, GenStage's pull-based design delivering 50% performance improvements, a new PDF data extraction library that leverages Python through PythonX, AppSignal's guide to deploying Phoenix with Kamal, an Elixir School lesson on embedding Lua in applicatio...

News includes Phoenix 1.8.0-rc.4 and LiveView 1.1.0-rc.3 with igniter upgrader support, new libraries including deps_changelog and the Hog process debugging tool by Alex Koutmos, Fly.io's announcement of managed Postgres, an incredible conference talk about Waterpark - a healthcare system built on the BEAM that achieved 100% uptime for 5 years and running, tips on using Elixir compiler directives...

News includes Phoenix LiveView 1.1.0 release candidates featuring change tracking in comprehensions by default and TypeScript annotations, José Valim's inspiring DevLabs interview about building authentic tools and fostering healthy ecosystems, Matthew Sinclair's comprehensive post outlining 9 compelling reasons to choose Elixir, Peter Solnica's exciting teaser about rebuilding rom-rb in Elixir, I...

News includes LiveDebugger v0.3.0 with enhanced debugging capabilities for Phoenix LiveView including redirect following and dead process state browsing, Oban 1.6 featuring sub-workflows and cascading workflows, YOLO v0.2.0 bringing YOLOX support for faster image detection in Elixir, a discussion on the importance of testing and how AI tools are making test creation easier, helpful LiveView tips f...