January 30, 2024

Elixir Community News and Updates in Podcast Episode 187

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Source: thinkingelixir.com

In their 187th episode, the hosts of the Thinking Elixir Podcast discuss several key topics relevant to the Elixir community. They celebrate the Phoenix framework's ten-year journey and highlight its major feature updates. They also review the new interactive language tour provided by the Gleam language, which allows users to experience the language directly through their web browsers. Additionally, they explore the latest release of ElixirLS (version 0.19.0), which brings enhancements to the developer experience, such as on-type parsing for Phoenix `.heex` files and workspace symbol improvements. Significantly, the hosts delve into the adoption of ExDoc by the Erlang community for improved documentation, a move that suggests tighter integration and shared tooling between these closely related languages. The episode also includes discussions of various other updates and resources, such as a YouTube playlist from ElixirConf EU 2023. Overall, this episode serves as a comprehensive update on the developments and resources available within the Elixir ecosystem.

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