Elixir Community Updates and Development Insights

This episode of the Thinking Elixir podcast discusses various updates and news in the Elixir community. It highlights the release of Phoenix v1.8, which includes a new AGENTS markdown file aimed at enhancing coding experiences with agents. Additionally, it covers Popcorn, a tool that allows Elixir to run in the browser via WebAssembly without installation. LiveVue v0.6.0 has significantly reduced payload sizes thanks to JSON Patch operations. The show also features a tip on hot-reloading code changes in LiveView while maintaining state, the addition of decorators in MDEx v0.8 for better code block styling, and major performance improvements in Hologram v0.5.0. The hosts talk about the implications of AI-generated code on QA and code review processes, along with information on ElixirConf US 2025 tickets with a discount. For more details, listeners are encouraged to check out the full show notes and related videos.