283: Erlang Turns 27 and React at Risk

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 Server Components remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting Next.js, and Zig's dramatic departure from GitHub citing Microsoft's AI obsession and declining service quality, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/283 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/283) Elixir Community News https://paraxial.io/ (https://paraxial.io/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_campaign=thinkingelixir-oct2025) – 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. Happy Birthday to Erlang - celebrating 27 years as Open Source https://nitter.net/theerlef/status/1808898170673639547 (https://nitter.net/theerlef/status/1808898170673639547?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – EEF vote on when to celebrate the Erlang Anniversary (July 2024) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang(programminglanguage) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Wikipedia article noting Erlang was released as free and open-source in 1998 https://web.archive.org/19991009002753/http://www.erlang.se/onlinenews/ErlangOTpos.shtml (https://web.archive.org/19991009002753/http://www.erlang.se/onlinenews/ErlangOTpos.shtml?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Archive of the original Erlang open source release announcement https://api.github.com/repos/erlang/otp (https://api.github.com/repos/erlang/otp?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Erlang OTP GitHub repository information showing it was created in 2009 https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/LICENSE.txt (https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/LICENSE.txt?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Erlang OTP license changed to Apache License 2.0 in June 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheCathedralandtheBazaar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Critical writings that extolled the values of open source https://elixir-hub.com/surveys/2025 (https://elixir-hub.com/surveys/2025?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Elixir Hub 2025 survey with over 1000 participants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfusmodelofskillacquisition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Dreyfus model of skill acquisition referenced in survey analysis https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1pa3y3x/elixirpackageforgoveelightsdevicecontrol (https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1pa3y3x/elixir_package_for_govee_lights_device_control?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Reddit posting about Govee Lights Elixir control package https://github.com/adia-dev/govee-lights-ex (https://github.com/adia-dev/govee-lights-ex?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – GitHub project for Govee Lights Elixir package https://hexdocs.pm/govee_lights (https://hexdocs.pm/govee_lights?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – HexDocs documentation for Govee Lights package https://hex.pm/packages/data_migration (https://hex.pm/packages/data_migration?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Published data_migration package for viewing and running Ecto Data Migrations from LiveDashboard https://github.com/tv-labs/data-migration (https://github.com/tv-labs/data-migration?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – GitHub repository for data_migration package https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jfsigp5qadbh2vzs4h7vprvs/post/3m7iaqk37tk2q (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jfsigp5qadbh2vzs4h7vprvs/post/3m7iaqk37tk2q?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Bluesky post announcing data_migration https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1995891610568073650 (https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1995891610568073650?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – José Valim's post about Tidewave.ai finding and fixing accessibility issues https://tidewave.ai/blog/improving-web-accessibility-with-trace-augmented-generation (https://tidewave.ai/blog/improving-web-accessibility-with-trace-augmented-generation?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Tidewave blog post detailing their accessibility improvement process https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1998066738865569930 (https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1998066738865569930?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – José Valim's post about Tidewave recent updates including file references and viewport presets https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zigquitsgithubmicrosoftai_obsession (https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Article about Zig programming language leaving GitHub due to Microsoft's AI obsession https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792 (https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – GitHub issue demonstrating GitHub Actions quality decline https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-has-a-problem-nobody-wants-its-poor-ai-products/ar-AA1RWB7f (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-has-a-problem-nobody-wants-its-poor-ai-products/ar-AA1RWB7f?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Article about Microsoft's struggles with AI product adoption https://threatprotect.qualys.com/2025/12/04/react-server-components-rsc-remote-code-execution-vulnerabilities/ (https://threatprotect.qualys.com/2025/12/04/react-server-components-rsc-remote-code-execution-vulnerabilities/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Critical remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components (CVE-2025-55182) https://snyk.io/blog/security-advisory-critical-rce-vulnerabilities-react-server-components/ (https://snyk.io/blog/security-advisory-critical-rce-vulnerabilities-react-server-components/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Snyk security advisory about critical RCE vulnerabilities in React Server Components Do you have some Elixir news to share? 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