Thinking Elixir Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Zig”

283: Erlang Turns 27 and React at Risk

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:15:00 -0700

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

Elixir Community News

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Happy Birthday to Erlang - celebrating 27 years as Open Source
https://x.com/theerlef/status/1808898170673639547 – EEF vote on when to celebrate the Erlang Anniversary (July 2024)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language) – 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 – Archive of the original Erlang open source release announcement
https://api.github.com/repos/erlang/otp – Erlang OTP GitHub repository information showing it was created in 2009
https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/LICENSE.txt – Erlang OTP license changed to Apache License 2.0 in June 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar – Critical writings that extolled the values of open source
https://elixir-hub.com/surveys/2025 – Elixir Hub 2025 survey with over 1000 participants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition – Dreyfus model of skill acquisition referenced in survey analysis
https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1pa3y3x/elixir_package_for_govee_lights_device_control – Reddit posting about Govee Lights Elixir control package
https://github.com/adia-dev/govee-lights-ex – GitHub project for Govee Lights Elixir package
https://hexdocs.pm/govee_lights – HexDocs documentation for Govee Lights package
https://hex.pm/packages/data_migration – Published data_migration package for viewing and running Ecto Data Migrations from LiveDashboard
https://github.com/tv-labs/data-migration – GitHub repository for data_migration package
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jfsigp5qadbh2vzs4h7vprvs/post/3m7iaqk37tk2q – Bluesky post announcing data_migration
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1995891610568073650 – José Valim's post about Tidewave.ai finding and fixing accessibility issues
https://tidewave.ai/blog/improving-web-accessibility-with-trace-augmented-generation – Tidewave blog post detailing their accessibility improvement process
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1998066738865569930 – José Valim's post about Tidewave recent updates including file references and viewport presets
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession – Article about Zig programming language leaving GitHub due to Microsoft's AI obsession
https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792 – 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 – Article about Microsoft's struggles with AI product adoption
https://threatprotect.qualys.com/2025/12/04/react-server-components-rsc-remote-code-execution-vulnerabilities/ – Critical remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components (CVE-2025-55182)
https://snyk.io/blog/security-advisory-critical-rce-vulnerabilities-react-server-components/ – Snyk security advisory about critical RCE vulnerabilities in React Server Components

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170: Thinking Elixir News

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 04:15:00 -0600

News this week includes the release of ElixirConf 2023 video playlist featuring keynote videos, a guide on Web Application Security Best Practices for BEAM languages from the EEF Security Working Group, the release of NextLS v0.12 with exciting new features, and a new library to integrate the JavaScript all-in-one toolkit, Bun with Phoenix. A new LangChain library makes it easy to integrate Elixir applications with an LLM like ChatGPT. Regarding the open source community, we discuss the major update in the Lodash JS project, the latest PostgreSQL 16 release, and a noteworthy article from ZigLang on bounties potentially damaging open source projects, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/170

Elixir Community News

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY – ElixirConf 2023 video playlist, currently only includes the keynote videos.
https://twitter.com/bernheisel/status/1704019930515919092 – Chris McCord's keynote for ElixirConf 2023.
https://erlef.github.io/security-wg/web_app_security_best_practices_beam/ – Guide on Web Application Security Best Practices for BEAM languages
https://twitter.com/paraxialio/status/1703146204404535467 – Update on the same topic on Twitter.
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/134 – Podcast episode discussing inside the Security Working Group
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/93 – Preventing Service Abuse with Michael Lubas podcast episode
https://github.com/elixir-tools/next-ls – NextLS v0.12 released with new features.
https://www.elixir-tools.dev/news/the-elixir-tools-update-vol-3/ – More information on the Elixir Tools update.
https://twitter.com/crbelaus/status/1702703595236331668 – Phoenix's new library to integrate Bun, the JavaScript all-in-one toolkit.
https://hex.pm/packages/elixir_bun – Link to the new Phoenix library on Hex.
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/83 – More info about Zig with a previous guest Isaac Yonemoto.
https://github.com/brainlid/langchain – LangChain for Elixir library was released.
https://twitter.com/RudManusachi/status/1702093261530403223 – Brian Cardarella's LiveViewNative keynote showed the ExDoc documentation.
https://hexdocs.pm/ex_doc/readme.html#tabsets – Explanation on the use of tabsets in ExDocs.
https://twitter.com/danielcroe/status/1703127430523703432 – Lodash JS project declared "Issue bankruptcy"
https://github.com/lodash/lodash – Lodash, a modern JavaScript utility library, went through some changes.
https://ziglang.org/news/bounties-damage-open-source-projects/ – ZigLang blog stating that "Bounties Damage Open Source Projects"
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-16-released-2715/ – PostgreSQL 16 released with performance improvements and new features.
https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/active-active-postgres-16 – Understanding of "Active-Active" replication in PostgreSQL 16.

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83: Zig and Zigler with Isaac Yonemoto

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 04:15:00 -0700

We talk with Isaac Yonemoto about the Zig language and his Zigler Elixir library. We learn where Zig came from, why it is capturing people's interest, and how Zigler makes it easy to write native, cross-compiled NIFs in Elixir! At the end we shift into talking about his OpenAPI Elixir project that comes at the problem from a different direction than others. A fun get-to-know-you with Isaac and a great look into Zig and where it might go with Elixir in the future.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/83

Elixir Community News

https://gleam.run/news/gleam-v0.19-released/ – Gleam release v0.19 enables publishing Gleam packages to Hex as Erlang libraries.
https://github.com/gleam-lang/mix_gleam – Mix Gleam makes it easier to integrate Gleam into your Elixir project
Brooklin Myers joined DockYard as a full time employee to help build an open Elixir bootcamp.
https://github.com/lpil/thoas/ – Jason library ported to Erlang
https://www.irif.fr/~gc/stageElixir.en.html – Masters project working to add "Set-theoretic types" to Elixir
https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/issues/1957 – Neovim performance impact from tree-sitter regression
https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/1510 – Link to the tree-sitter issue
https://twitter.com/pragprog/status/1481287351376629766 – The Elixir and Nerves book "Build a Weather Station with Elixir and Nerves" is now out of beta and available at PragProg
https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2022/#register – LambdaDays rescheduled dates are Thu, 28 Jul 2022 - Fri, 29 Jul 2022
https://github.com/livebook-dev/kino/issues/72 – Using Livebook for interviewing
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/75 – Our interview with Dave Lucia at SimpleBet

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Guest Information

https://twitter.com/DNAutics – on Twitter
https://github.com/ityonemo/ – on Github
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCarZZW7eavljSdGRQx9kkSA/featured – Isaac's YouTube channel

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81: Elixir in a Burrito with Quinn and Digit

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 04:15:00 -0700

We talk with Digit and Quinn Wilton about the Burrito project. It wraps up Elixir to a single binary, enables cross-platform builds, and uses Zig to help while also enabling NIFs! They share how the security focused software they create uses this to run in isolated environments where Elixir can’t be installed. A really cool project that can be used for one-off scripts, long running CLI applications with full OTP features and more. They share some of the challenges they had to overcome in creating Burrito and how it being OpenSource helps the company and their project.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/81

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.13.1 – Elixir 1.13.1 released. Bug fixes.
https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon – BeaconCMS announced by Dockyard
https://twitter.com/1stAvenger/status/1474167882946957313 – Mike Binns talks about his work on BeaconCMS
https://github.com/cloveapp/notion_renderer – Steve Bussey released a Notion renderer for Phoenix
https://ziglang.org/download/0.9.0/release-notes.html – Zig release updates
https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1477196958179680256 – Wojtek Mach gives context to the Zig release for Elixir
https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_system_br/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v1180 – Nerves updates in time for the New Year
https://twitter.com/NervesProject/status/1477054737921060869 – Nerves update announcement on Twitter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/grisp-2/posts/3394103 – Grisp 2 Boards Kickstarter update

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Discussion Resources

https://github.com/burrito-elixir/burrito
https://github.com/wojtekmach/elixir-run – Wojtek Mach's experiment
https://github.com/spawnfest/bakeware
https://github.com/bake-bake-bake/bakeware – Bakeware project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8-9yZlye30 – Quinn's talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQb58bqwDOc – Digit's talk
https://www.synopsys.com/
https://hex.pm/packages/teex
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir_make
https://github.com/ndreynolds/ratatouille
https://github.com/nsf/termbox
https://ziglang.org/
https://llvm.org/
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/wilton_quinn – Quinn on Twitter
https://github.com/QuinnWilton/ – Quinn on Github
https://quinnwilton.com/ – Quinn's Site
https://twitter.com/doawoo – Digit on Twitter
https://github.com/doawoo – Digit on Github
https://puppy.surf – Digit's Site

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