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Thinking Elixir 283 - Erlang Turns 27 and React at Risk

Episode 283 of Thinking Elixir. News includes celebrating Erlang’s 27th birthday as open source, results from the Elixir Hub 2025 survey showing strong community growth with over 1000 participants, a fun Govee Lights control library, a new data_migration package for LiveDashboard, Tidewave.ai’s impressive accessibility testing and fixing capabilities showing 2x better performance than Claude Code standalone, critical React Server Components remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting Next.js, and Zig’s dramatic departure from GitHub citing Microsoft’s AI obsession and declining service quality, and more!

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