New Developments and Tools in the Elixir Ecosystem

The content highlights various recent developments in the Elixir ecosystem. Notable announcements include the introduction of Arcana, a new RAG library for Phoenix that enhances vector search and AI Q&A capabilities by utilizing Postgres and pgvector. Additionally, a JavaScript embedding library called MquickjsEx has been released, allowing MicroQuickJS to be integrated into Elixir processes. The update also mentions the release of LiveDebugger v0.5.0, which adds support for LiveView Streams, and the commercial dashboard templates by DaisyUI officially supporting Phoenix. Furthermore, Durable has emerged as a new workflow engine akin to Temporal. José Valim has teased upcoming improvements to the type system, and the Hologram project has received an EEF stipend. The Jido 2.0 is showcased, illustrating swarms of 1,575 agents indexing code in just 7 seconds. Finally, ElixirConf EU 2026 has announced José Valim and Chris McCord as keynote speakers.