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256: Types, Tools, and Turbo Charging
Published 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Description
News includes the Elixir 1.19 RC release featuring up to 4x faster compilation and significant types system improvements, more ElixirConfEU videos including José Valim's keynote on type system updates, the look at the Backpex admin panel for Phoenix LiveView applications, Ash AI's impressive AI integration using the Elixir LangChain library, an informal Elixir Contributors Summit recap from Software Mansion, the Quokka formatter that automatically fixes Credo style code issues, Popcorn's browser-based Elixir implementation with JavaScript interoperability, and the launch of Elixir Observer for better Hex package exploration, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/256
Elixir Community News
- https://www.honeybadger.io/ – Honeybadger.io is sponsoring today's show! Keep your apps healthy and your customers happy with Honeybadger! It's free to get started, and setup takes less than five minutes.
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir 1.19 RC release with up to 4x faster compilation for large projects, types system updates, and improved pretty printing
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z – ElixirConfEU videos playlist with all 4 keynotes and Lightning Talks
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po-ckmSt1gI&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=13 – José Valim's keynote "Type System and Elixir Updates + Extended Q&A"
- https://github.com/naymspace/backpex – Backpex - highly customizable administration panel for Phoenix LiveView applications
- https://backpex.live/ – Backpex project landing page
- https://demo.backpex.live/admin/users – Live demo of Backpex admin panel
- https://hexdocs.pm/ash_ai/readme.html – Ash AI documentation - AI implementation for the Ash Framework
- https://x.com/ZachSDaniel1/status/1927249155019149409 – Zach Daniel's tweet teasing Ash AI features
- https://blog.swmansion.com/elixir-contributor-summit-2025-shaping-the-future-together-at-software-mansion-cc3271a188eb – Blog post about the informal Elixir Contributors Summit held after ElixirConf EU
- https://github.com/smartrent/quokka – Quokka - Elixir formatter that combines mix format and mix credo to automatically fix code style issues
- https://github.