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Thinking Elixir Podcast 273: Does the Language Really Matter?

Episode 273 of Thinking Elixir. News includes Chris McCord releasing a shell-based web browser tool for LLMs extracted from phoenix.new, a new schema validation library called Zoi inspired by JavaScript’s Zod, AshDiagram for generating beautiful visualizations of AshFramework applications, the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation’s progress toward EU Cyber Resilience Act readiness with their Ægis security initiative, PostgreSQL 18.0 release with Index Skip Scans and async I/O improvements, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 release, IEEE’s Top Programming Languages 2025 list and a discussion about whether AI-assisted coding means the end of programming language rankings, and more!

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