Episode Details

News includes Quickbeam, an exciting new research project that brings a full JavaScript runtime inside the BEAM with OTP supervision, native DOM access, and a built-in TypeScript toolchain, plus a companion Volt asset pipeline for Elixir; José Valim highlights how Elixir’s type system work is already inspiring optimizations in Python’s Ruff project, and shares a new blog post on the latest BDD performance improvements coming in Elixir v1.20; LiveView Debugger v0.7 arrives with source code links, nested live view tree structure, and a closer path to v1.0; a new browser-based Elixir Language Tour expands its Processes chapter with hands-on GenServers, Supervisors, and more; Oban v2.21 lands with workflow tracking, rate limiting, and massive index improvements; and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/297

Elixir Community News

• https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.
• https://github.com/elixir-volt/volt – Volt - a new asset pipeline for Elixir that replaces esbuild wrapper, Tailwind CLI, and node_modules.
• https://x.com/dan_note/status/2033975642057019499 – Announcement post for the Volt asset pipeline for Elixir.
• https://x.com/dan_note/status/2032139121850728939 – Announcement post for Quickbeam, a JavaScript runtime for the BEAM.
• https://github.com/elixir-volt/quickbeam – Quickbeam - a JavaScript runtime for the BEAM with Web APIs backed by OTP, native DOM, and a built-in TypeScript toolchain. Still an early beta research project.
• https://github.com/cocoa-xu/exclosured – ExClosured - a new framework for compiling Rust to WebAssembly, running it in the browser, and hooking into Phoenix LiveView.
• https://exclosured.app/ – Demo site for ExClosured, showing image manipulation and SQLite-in-the-browser examples.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2034623221807370570 – José Valim highlights how Elixir's type system work has inspired optimizations in Python's Ruff/ty project.
• https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/23881 – Pull request on the Python Ruff project applying BDD optimization techniques inspired by Elixir's type system work.
• https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff – Ruff - an extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2034624137981739153 – José Valim shares his latest blog post on type system optimizations for differences.

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