Creating and Evolving Elixir (with José Valim)

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Back in 2012, José Valim started building Elixir to as a way to have his ideal programming language running on the same platform as Erlang. Fast-forward 12 years and it’s become build anything from distributed infrastructure to notebooks and websites.

In this week’s Developer Voices, José joins us to tell the history of Elixir in a series of design choices. Which features mattered to him in the early days, and which ones excite him most now. What’s going on under the hood to make Elixir tick, and what does its future hold?

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Elixir Homepage: https://elixir-lang.org/

Elixir Docs: https://elixir-lang.org/docs.html

Numerical Elixir: https://github.com/elixir-nx

Phoenix: https://phoenixframework.org/

Livebook: https://livebook.dev/

José’s Livebook & Elixir Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pas9WdWIBHs

Comparing Elixir & Erlang Variables: https://dashbit.co/blog/comparing-elixir-and-erlang-variables

Gleam on the BEAM: https://youtu.be/RntfkL8lUY4

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