Elixir Mix

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Panel

• Mark Ericksen
• Michael Ries
• Charles Max Wood
• Josh Adams

Joined by Special Guest: José Valim

Summary

José Valim, the creator of Elixir, shares his story with the panel starting with why he built Elixir. The panel wonders why José did not just use Erlang. José discusses what he wanted from Elixir and what problems he wanted to solve. The panel discusses concurrency, Metaprogramming, ad hoc polymorphism, and run times. José talks about what it was like as elixir grew in popularity and maintaining Elixir.

José shares his goals for Elixir for 2019 and discusses his role in different projects. The panel shares their love for the friendliness and openness of the Elixir community and asks José how it became that way. The history of the signature heart emojis is shared. José shares a little about his everyday life and the things he enjoys to do. The episode ends with an update on the Erlang Ecosystems Foundation. 

Links

• https://erlef.org/
• https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwz1DqVWkAAT4tr.jpg
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc_polymorphism
• https://github.com/dynamo/dynamo
• https://github.com/grych/drab
• https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto
• https://phoenixframework.org/
• https://github.com/beam-telemetry/telemetry
• https://hex.pm/packages/broadway
• https://hexdocs.pm/broadway/0.2.0/Broadway.html
• https://hexdocs.pm/gen_stage/0.14.1/GenStage.html
• https://hexdocs.pm/flow/0.14.3/Flow.html
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_pubsub/pull/121#issuecomment-466673652
• https://github.com/nashby/jose-vs-oss
• http://pages.plataformatec.com.br/elixir-development-subscription
• https://twitter.com/josevalim
• https://github.com/josevalim
• https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix
• https://twitter.com/elixir_mix

Picks

Mark Ericksen:

• https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted

Josh Adams:

• RubyHack 2019 - Ruby3: What's Missing? by Yukihiro (Matz) Matsumoto
• The Giant Chicken Brahma

Charles Max Wood:

• https://www.theblaze.com/news/scientists-create-first-3d-printed-heart
• https://podwrench.com
• https://podcastmovement.com/

Michael Ries:

• Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix
• "Triste" ALBA ARMENGOU SANT ANDREU JAZZ BAND (JOAN CHAMORRO DIRECCIÓN)

José Valim:

• Chris McCord Keynote: Phoenix LiveView - Interactive, Real TIme Apps - No need to write Javascript
• Nintendo Switch

Special Guest: José Valim.

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