Discussion on Elixir Releases, Unification Efforts, and Deployment Features

This content covers episode 91 of the Thinking Elixir Podcast where José Valim discusses various aspects of the Elixir programming language as it approaches its 10-year anniversary. In this episode, the focus is on Elixir releases 1.7, 1.8, and 1.9. Valim highlights the unification efforts between Elixir and Erlang, such as changes to error stacktraces, documentation storage, and a unified logger. He also discusses the significant impact of Mix.target on the Nerves project and the evolution of deployment releases. The episode includes calls for contributors to improve Elixir's date/time features and details about the addition of deployment releases in Elixir 1.9. The podcast concludes with various Elixir community news and resources.