Elixir Community Updates and News

In this episode of the Thinking Elixir Podcast, hosts Mark Ericksen and David Bernheisel discuss major updates and news in the Elixir community. Highlights include the release of ElixirLS 0.21.0, which brings new features like incremental dialyzer and experimental code actions. José Valim's insights on Elixir's forthcoming type system and improvements in exception handling are also covered, including detailed discussions on type-checking comparison operators, and the use of set-theoretic types. Additionally, they introduce 'Bloom,' a new opinionated extension to Phoenix core components, and Chris McCord's demonstration of rapid hot code deploys across global Fly.io clusters. The hosts also touch on recent legal developments such as the FTC's ruling on non-compete clauses and AWS's changes to S3 billing to mitigate unauthorized access charges. The episode is rounded off with several useful links to additional resources, related blog posts, and tweets from key figures in the Elixir community.