Episode 50: EMx 050: Elixir Origin Story with José Valim

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Panel

Mark Ericksen
Michael Ries
Charles Max Wood
Josh Adams

Joined by Special Guest: José Valim

Summary

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. 

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 Ericksen:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted

Josh Adams:

RubyHack 2019 - Ruby3: What's Missing? by Yukihiro (Matz) Matsumoto
The Giant Chicken Brahma

Charles Max Wood:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/scientists-create-first-3d-printed-heart
https://podwrench.com
https://podcastmovement.com/

Michael Ries:

Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix
"Triste" ALBA ARMENGOU SANT ANDREU JAZZ BAND (JOAN CHAMORRO DIRECCIÓN)

José Valim:

Chris McCord Keynote: Phoenix LiveView - Interactive, Real TIme Apps - No need to write Javascript
Nintendo Switch

Special Guest: José Valim.

Sponsors

Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan
Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus
CacheFly

Panel

Mark Ericksen
Michael Ries
Charles Max Wood
Josh Adams

Joined by Special Guest: José Valim

Summary

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. 

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 Ericksen:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted

Josh Adams:

RubyHack 2019 - Ruby3: What's Missing? by Yukihiro (Matz) Matsumoto
The Giant Chicken Brahma

Charles Max Wood:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/scientists-create-first-3d-printed-heart
https://podwrench.com
https://podcastmovement.com/

Michael Ries:

Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix
"Triste" ALBA ARMENGOU SANT ANDREU JAZZ BAND (JOAN CHAMORRO DIRECCIÓN)

José Valim:

Chris McCord Keynote: Phoenix LiveView - Interactive, Real TIme Apps - No need to write Javascript
Nintendo Switch

Special Guest: José Valim.