Latest Updates and Libraries in the Elixir Ecosystem

In episode 190 of the Thinking Elixir Podcast, hosts Mark Ericksen, David Bernheisel, and Cade Ward discuss several important developments in the Elixir community. Key highlights include the latest Phoenix LiveView v0.20.5 release, which moves closer to the full 1.0 version and includes vital bug fixes. They also examine new testing utilities, such as example_test that aims to make code tests more readable. A significant advancement for the Erlang community is also explored, where there is a proposal to include JSON handling directly in the standard library. Fly.io's announcement about the general availability of GPU instances for projects is another topic of interest. Other notable mentions include the progression of the Gleam language towards its 1.0.0 release and the creation of Merquery, a Postman-like interactive querying tool for Elixir. The episode serves as a comprehensive update on the evolving tools and languages around Elixir.