Episode 124: EMx 050: Elixir Origin Story with José Valim

Elixir Mix

English - January 12, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 94.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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José Valim, the creator of Elixir, shares his story with the panel starting with why he built Elixir. The panel wonders why José did not just use Erlang. José discusses what he wanted from Elixir and what problems he wanted to solve. The panel discusses concurrency, Metaprogramming, ad hoc polymorphism, and run times. José talks about what it was like as elixir grew in popularity and maintaining Elixir.

José shares his goals for Elixir for 2019 and discusses his role in different projects. The panel shares their love for the friendliness and openness of the Elixir community and asks José how it became that way. The history of the signature heart emojis is shared. José shares a little about his everyday life and the things he enjoys to do. The episode ends with an update on the Erlang Ecosystems Foundation.

Panel

Mark Ericksen
Michael Ries
Charles Max Wood
Josh Adams

Guest

José Valim

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Links

https://erlef.org/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwz1DqVWkAAT4tr.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc_polymorphism
https://github.com/dynamo/dynamo
https://github.com/grych/drab
https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto
https://phoenixframework.org/
https://github.com/beam-telemetry/telemetry
https://hex.pm/packages/broadway
https://hexdocs.pm/broadway/0.2.0/Broadway.html
https://hexdocs.pm/gen_stage/0.14.1/GenStage.html
https://hexdocs.pm/flow/0.14.3/Flow.html
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_pubsub/pull/121#issuecomment-466673652
https://github.com/nashby/jose-vs-oss
http://pages.plataformatec.com.br/elixir-development-subscription
https://twitter.com/josevalim
https://github.com/josevalim
https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix
https://twitter.com/elixir_mix

Picks

Mark - https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted
Josh- RubyHack 2019 – Ruby3: What's Missing? by Yukihiro (Matz) Matsumoto
Josh- The Giant Chicken Brahma
Charles- https://www.theblaze.com/news/scientists-create-first-3d-printed-heart
Charles- https://podwrench.com
Charles- https://podcastmovement.com/
Michael- Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix
Michael- "Triste" ALBA ARMENGOU SANT ANDREU JAZZ BAND (JOAN CHAMORRO DIRECCIÓN)
José- Chris McCord Keynote: Phoenix LiveView – Interactive, Real TIme Apps – No need to write Javascript
José- Nintendo Switch

Special Guest: José Valim.