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Thinking Elixir 256 - Types, Tools, and Turbo Charging
Episode 256 of Thinking Elixir. News includes the Elixir 1.19 RC release featuring up to 4x faster compilation and significant types system improvements, more ElixirConfEU videos including José Valim’s keynote on type system updates, the look at the Backpex admin panel for Phoenix LiveView applications, Ash AI’s impressive AI integration using the Elixir LangChain library, an informal Elixir Contributors Summit recap from Software Mansion, the Quokka formatter that automatically fixes Credo style code issues, Popcorn’s browser-based Elixir implementation with JavaScript interoperability, and the launch of Elixir Observer for better Hex package exploration, and more!
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