Introduction of Elixir Drops Library for Data Validation

Elixir Drops is a newly released library that brings the dry-rb library's data validation paradigm to the Elixir programming language. Peter Solnica, experienced in Ruby's dry-rb libraries, has fulfilled community requests by creating a similar ecosystem for Elixir. The core of Elixir Drops lies in its Contract system with Schema DSL which allows developers to define precise shapes and domain validation rules for data, ensuring type safety at system boundaries. Schemas can validate input data, enforce type requirements, and even simplify larger data structures into more manageable formats. Additionally, this library supports type-safe casting through a rigorous validation process before and after casting. Elixir Drops also simplify domain validation rules by separating schema validations from business logic validations. This clear separation makes the rules more straightforward and perhaps even automatable in future library versions. Lastly, the library also includes functionalities for safe map atomization, easing the handling of string-based input maps. While this is just the version 0.1.0 release, Elixir Drops is already in use at valued.app, proving its capability to manage and validate significant volumes of JSON payloads. With the promise to evolve through community feedback, Elixir Drops ramps up Elixir's potential in data validation and structure management.