Thinking Elixir Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Anniversary”

288: 15 Years of Elixir and Full Type Inference

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 04:15:00 -0700

News includes Elixir's 15th anniversary celebrated with an early v1.20 release candidate featuring type inference for all constructs, Chris McCord's launch of Sprites.dev for hardware-isolated execution environments at Fly.io, MDEx v0.11.0 with a new website and Phoenix Components support, Ex_cldr 3.0 announced as Localize with runtime-only configuration, Gust workflow engine as an Airflow alternative built in Elixir, LiveDebugger v0.5.0 with Dead LiveViews debugging, LiveVue v1.0 stable release bringing Vue.js integration to Phoenix LiveView, Goatmire conference returning in 2026, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/288

Elixir Community News

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January 9th, 2026 marked 15 years since Elixir's first commit
https://x.com/josevalim/status/2009702354527088669 – José Valim's tweet celebrating 15 years of Elixir
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/01/09/type-inference-of-all-and-next-15/ – Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months - announcement blog post for Elixir v1.20 RC with type inference for all constructs
https://x.com/josevalim/status/2010660222906597572 – José Valim's post about community feedback on the type system inference release candidate - it's faster, finds more bugs and dead code
https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/2009688571037339922 – Chris McCord's announcement of Sprites.dev
https://sprites.dev/ – Sprites.dev - hardware-isolated execution environments for arbitrary code launched at Fly.io
https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1qb0scq/mdex_fast_and_extensible_markdown/ – Reddit discussion of MDEx v0.11.0 update
https://mdelixir.dev/ – New MDEx website with features, examples, and motivation behind the project
https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – MDEx changelog for v0.11.0
https://hexdocs.pm/mdex/phoenix_live_view_heex.html – Livebook example showing MDEx usage with Phoenix HEEx components
https://elixirforum.com/t/localize-next-generation-localisation-ex-cldr-v3-0/73933 – Announcement of Localize (Ex_cldr 3.0) - next generation localisation
https://github.com/elixir-localize – Elixir Localize GitHub organization
https://github.com/marciok/gust – Gust - a task orchestration system built in Elixir, designed to be efficient, fast and developer-friendly
https://elixirforum.com/t/gust-a-task-orchestration-system-built-in-elixir/73628 – ElixirForum announcement post for Gust workflow engine
https://elixirforum.com/t/gust-a-task-orchestration-system-built-in-elixir/73628/8 – Comment from Gust creator explaining it as an Airflow alternative for DAG orchestration
https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/2010754348536709355 – LiveDebugger v0.5.0 announcement with Dead LiveViews section for debugging crashes
https://x.com/jskalc/status/2008559959781634404 – LiveVue v1.0 release announcement
https://skalecki.dev/blog/story-of-live-vue – Story of LiveVue - announcement blog post
https://github.com/Valian/live_vue – LiveVue GitHub project - Vue.js + Phoenix LiveView integration
https://livevue.skalecki.dev/examples/ – LiveVue examples website showing different usage patterns
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lawik_goatmire-elixir-nervesconf-eu-activity-7416738610944811008-5Xwh – Lars Wikman's announcement that Goatmire will happen again (Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2026)
https://www.goatmire.com/ – Goatmire conference website with signup list for notifications
https://bsky.app/profile/pragprog.com/post/3mbfgw6zlfs2n – Announcement that the Ash Framework book is Pragmatic Programmers' #1 best seller this year
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91: Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 3

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 04:15:00 -0600

José Valim returns to continue with part 3 of our 5 part series as we count down to the 10 year anniversary of the Elixir project we know and love. In Part 3, we talk through the Elixir releases of 1.7, 1.8, and 1.9. We talk about the unification efforts between Elixir and Erlang. These came through changes to error stacktraces, how documentation is stored, a unified logger, and more. We learn how features like Mix.target made a big difference for the Nerves project. We also hear the call for contributors to help bring a few remaining date/time features to Elixir. The big feature in Elixir 1.9 was the addition of deployment releases and the early efforts at managing config for releases. We thought this would be a short episode but found there was a lot to talk about and learn!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/91

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/bencheeorg/benchee – Benchee 1.1.0 release
https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2022/03/08/benchee-1-1-0-released-why-did-it-take-so-long/ – Blog post on Benchee release and why the release took so long
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1501482561511510018 – ExDoc gets a new minor feature that lets us syntax highlight HEEx templates
https://elixirpatterns.dev/ – “Elixir Patterns” book is being pre-launched by the authors, Alex Koutmos and Hugo Baraúna.
https://davelucia.com/blog/avro-2.0 – AvroEx 2.0 released
https://www.functionalconf.com/ – Functional Conference 2022 - Asia's Premier Functional Programming Conference

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Discussion Resources

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/82 – Part 1
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/87 – Part 2
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.7/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir changelog for v1.7
https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0048 – EEP 48
https://hexdocs.pm/nx/Nx.html
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.8/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir changelog for v1.8
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Kernel.html#guards – Elixir docs on guards
“dunder“ = a Double Underscore
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Protocol.html#derive/3 – Protocol derive
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Inspect.html#module-deriving – Deriving for inspect
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.9/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir changelog for v1.9
https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Schema.html#field/3-options
https://hex.pm/packages/date_time_parser
https://github.com/bitwalker/distillery – Mix package used for releases before it was built into Elixir.

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/josevalim – on Twitter
https://github.com/josevalim – on Github
https://dashbit.co/ – Dashbit website and blog
https://erlef.org/news/ – The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation news

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87: Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 2

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 04:15:00 -0700

José Valim returns to continue with part 2 of our 5 part series as we count down to the 10 year anniversary of the Elixir project we know and love. In Part 2, we talk through the Elixir releases of 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6. We still manage to sneak in discussions about some new things in Elixir 1.13 and the upcoming release. We go deeper on GenStage, Registry, and growing up through production releases. We also learn about the history with unicode while touching on the recent unicode security issues that hit everywhere. We get some behind the scenes insights about the Elixir formatter and the complex logic required to bring ExUnit's pretty diff features, and much more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/87

Elixir Community News

https://twitter.com/importantshock/status/1491835261705199620 – GitHub code search based navigation now works with Elixir
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1491833991401463809 – José Valim credits the work and says the 10th language to get this feature.
https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/445 – GitHub public roadmap item - Advisory Database, Elixir/mix support
https://github.com/dependabot/elixir-security-advisories – Dependabot Elixir security advisories
https://github.com/readme/featured/server-side-languages-for-front-end – GitHub published an article feature Elixir and LiveView
https://anchor.fm/helloerlang – New Erlang focused podcast called “Hello Erlang!”
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1492464780480856069 – New versions of makeup, flow, nimble_parsec, nimble_pool, and plug were released.
https://github.com/elixir-makeup/makeup – Makeup is a "generic syntax highlighter" used in ExDoc
https://github.com/dashbitco/nimble_parsec
https://github.com/dashbitco/flow
https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug

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Discussion Resources

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/82 – Part 1 - Episode 82
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.4/CHANGELOG.md – CHANGELOG v1.4
https://elixirforum.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
https://hexdocs.pm/flow/Flow.html
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Task.html#async_stream/3
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Registry.html
https://github.com/bitwalker/distillery
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.5/CHANGELOG.md – CHANGELOG v1.5
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/v1.3/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix 1.3 released
https://trojansource.codes/
https://hexdocs.pm/iex/IEx.Pry.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4uE-jTB_Uk – The Feature That No One Knew About in Elixir 1.5 - José Valim
https://github.com/rrrene/credo
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.6/CHANGELOG.md – CHANGELOG v1.6
https://medium.com/@JakeBeckerCode/introducing-elixirls-the-elixir-language-server-d449bbbdfc01
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Guest Information

https://twitter.com/josevalim – on Twitter
https://github.com/josevalim – on Github
https://dashbit.co/ – Dashbit website and blog
https://erlef.org/news/ – The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation news

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