Thinking Elixir Podcast
The Thinking Elixir podcast is a weekly show where we talk about the Elixir programming language and the community around it. We cover news and interview guests to learn more about projects and developments in the community. Whether you are already experienced with Elixir or just exploring the language, this show is created with you in mind. We discuss community news, Functional Programming, transitioning from OOP, coding conventions, and more. Guests visit the show to help challenge our assumptions, learn about new developments and grow in the process. Subscribe to join us on this journey!
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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, mjmleex v0.13.0 for creating beautiful email templates, Dashbit's new nimblezta library for
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
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
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
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 pglargeobjects library for streaming large bin
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
