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New version of the Elixir Language Tour is here! 🚀 In this release we vastly extended the Processes chapter, so you can learn & play with core OTP components: Links, Agents, GenServers and Supervisors. The tour runs fully in your browser – all thanks to Popcorn 🍿 Try it out: elixir-language-tour.swmansion.com/introduction @elixirlang

🌴 No new episode this week. We're taking a little vacation! We’ll be back next week with a fresh episode. Thanks for your patience! 🎙️ #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

@BSchultzer @elixirlang @CodeSyncGlobal @CodeBEAMio @elixir_radar @elixirforum Will it be recorded and made available later?

If anyone ever wondered what the state of the art is for database connection pooling is and what bare metal Elixir looks like, this is for you: meetup.com/torontoelixir/… @elixirlang @ThinkingElixir @CodeSyncGlobal @CodeBEAMio @elixir_radar @elixirforum

News includes @JoseValim's deep dive into @ElixirLang's type system changes, a new Dashbit post on type systems as leaky abstractions, Oban Pro teasing Workflow UI improvements, MDEx v0.11.6, Livebook Desktop on Linux, and more! #ElixirLang youtube.com/watch?v=YJQokV…

Sagents v0.3.x is out! Lots to share! AI agents doing things on your behalf is great... until they do the wrong thing. Sagents lets you define exactly which operations need human approval. github.com/sagents-ai/sag… #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang #LLM #AI #agents 🧵👇

Elixir v1.20.0-rc.2 series is out! Overall, the compiler finds more bugs, for free, and it has never been faster: * Infers types across clauses, finding more bugs and dead code * Compiles ~10% faster and has a new interpreted mode (up to 5x faster, scales to the number of cores) * Modifying a struct definition recompiles fewer files (better incremental compilation) Please give it a try and share your feedback! Expect at least two additional RCs before v1.20.0!

@hugobarauna @josevalim Really interested in trying out the install experience.

Livebook desktop now supports Linux! #ElixirLang

Most people treat the static vs dynamic debate as a foregone conclusion, but in practice type systems restrict the expressive power of programming languages in ways that leak complexity to developers. New article: Type systems are leaky abstractions — the case of Map.take!/2

News includes Expert LSP releasing its first RC, Elixir v1.20 compile time improvements up to 20% faster, @LivebookDev Desktop moving to Tauri with #Linux support, a new erlang-python library for ML/AI integration, and more! @ElixirLang #ElixirLang #AI #ML youtube.com/watch?v=Ed83ck…

News includes Hackney v3.1.0 with pure @erlang_org HTTP/3 support, Hornbeam running #Python apps on the BEAM, the Easel Canvas 2D drawing library for LiveView, Hologram v0.7.0 reaching 96% Erlang runtime coverage, and more! #ElixirLang @ElixirLang youtube.com/watch?v=DBuH_P…

We talk about how an SDK for a service is just “glue code”. You rarely even need all of it. A good AI capable Elixir dev + Opus 4.6 can build what is needed in a day. This removes the advantage that “mainstream” languages enjoy with official SDK support. #ElixirLang

@josevalim Yeah! An SDK for a service is just “glue code”. You rarely even need all of it. A good AI capable Elixir dev + Opus 4.6 can build what is needed in a day. This removes the advantage that “mainstream” languages enjoy with official SDK support.

The great folks at @ThinkingElixir were discussing this point in this week's episode too!

This was a prescient post from @wojtekmach: why bring a large SDK to talk to a service, while you and your coding agent can quickly write a "small development kit" that covers exactly what you need, tailored to your app use cases? dashbit.co/blog/sdks-with…

News includes Mark’s new Sagents AI agent library, @JoseValim on why @ElixirLang is best for #AI, LiveDebugger v0.6.0, Elixir salary analysis, new #MCP server implementations, #Lua for Elixir revamp, and more! #ElixirLang youtube.com/watch?v=H1iyBr…

Introducing Sagents -- an open-source #ElixirLang framework for building #AI agents with human oversight, composable middleware, and real-time @ElixirPhoenix LiveView integration. Built on OTP. Each agent is a supervised GenServer. Watch the full demo: youtube.com/watch?v=r-14qc…

News includes @ElixirLang v1.20 achieving 2x compilation speedup, Telelang alternative #Erlang syntax, Membrane’s #AI-powered YOLO plugin, @JoseValim's PR Quiz tool for interactive code review learning, and the @ElixirConfEU speaker lineup! #ElixirLang youtube.com/watch?v=Makf80…

News includes @ElixirLang v1.20.0-rc.1, 2 new Elixir-native Bash interpreters, zero-boilerplate component storybooks, #DurableObject library for persistent actors, @Postgres search extension, a new #RAG approach skips vector DBs, and more! #ElixirLang youtube.com/watch?v=BzOk2C…

News includes porting Erlang to QNX for automotive systems, ExDoc 0.40.0 with LLM features, Oban Pro for #Python, new #AI evaluation tools Tribunal and Beamlens, Tidewave hits 100k ARR, PhD thesis on typing @ElixirLang, and more! #ElixirLang youtube.com/watch?v=a967gp…

Elixir’s 15th anniversary brings v1.20 RC with full type inference, @Chris_McCord launches Sprites.dev, LiveVue v1.0 goes stable, Gust #workflow engine debuts, and more! #ElixirLang @ElixirLang #VueJS youtube.com/watch?v=dJA9wA…

News includes Arcana #RAG library for Phoenix, MquickjsEx embedding #JavaScript in #ElixirLang, LiveDebugger adds Streams support, Durable workflow engine, @JoseValim teasing type improvements, Hologram receiving @TheErlef support, and more! @ElixirLang youtube.com/watch?v=cULPRZ…