News includes cutting-edge research from José Valim and Guillaume Duboc on the data structures powering Elixir's type system that made v1.19 both stronger and faster than v1.18, Phoenix LiveView v1.1.18 with new conveniences including view transition API support, LiveDebugger's biggest release yet with improved assigns inspection and resource monitoring, a new Nx feature enabling Python-Elixir model integration, LangChain library updates, Hologram's creator seeking sustainable sponsorship after 3 years of full-time development, WebGPU now supported in all major browsers bringing desktop-class GPU performance to the web, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/282

Elixir Community News

https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/12/02/lazier-bdds-for-set-theoretic-types/ – Blog post by Guillaume Duboc and José Valim about "Lazier Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) for set-theoretic types" - documenting the data structures powering Elixir's type system and optimizations in v1.19
https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1995862601113501791 – José Valim's tweet about the BDD blog post
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.19.4 – Elixir v1.19.4 release with bug fixes and new mix xref feature
https://hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.Tasks.Xref.html – Documentation for mix xref task including new --min-cycle-label option
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ – TIOBE Index - programming language popularity rankings
https://nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/ – Article critiquing TIOBE's methodology as fundamentally flawed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234633 – Hacker News discussion where José shares how Elixir disappeared from TIOBE top 100 due to having too many books on Amazon
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/changelog.html#v1-1-18-2025-11-25 – Phoenix LiveView v1.1.18 release with new conveniences including function passing in assign, onDocumentPatch callback, and phx-viewport-overrun-target attribute
https://gist.github.com/SteffenDE/cf7cdb91ba037b08cdc583763e4ffc69 – Example gist for using the new onDocumentPatch callback with view transition APIs
https://gist.github.com/SteffenDE/613125993362e30443e58558aa3c8ba0 – Example gist for phx-viewport-overrun-target for infinite table scrolling
https://nitter.net/swmansionelixir/status/1995511897651806624 – Software Mansion announcement of LiveDebugger 0.5.0 release
https://docs.swmansion.com/live-debugger/ – LiveDebugger documentation - their biggest release yet with improved assigns inspection, async loading, dead LiveViews tracking, and resource monitoring
https://nitter.net/davydog187/status/1994960093511905305 – Dave Lucia's tweet about new Nx feature by Paulo Valente
New Nx feature allows models written in Python to talk to Elixir and vice versa, breaking down integration barriers
https://bsky.app/profile/brainlid.bsky.social/post/3m6z4xoglls24 – Bluesky announcement of Elixir LangChain v0.4.1 release
https://github.com/brainlid/langchain – LangChain library for Elixir - GitHub repository
https://github.com/brainlid/langchain/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – LangChain changelog with enhancements for DeepSeek, OpenAI and Anthropic
https://nitter.net/bart_blast/status/1994150917420056651 – Bart Blast's tweet requesting sponsorship for Hologram development
https://hologram.page/blog/seeking-sustainable-sponsorship – Blog post explaining the need for sustainable sponsorship after 3 years of full-time Hologram development
https://github.com/bartblast/hologram – Hologram GitHub repository - transpiles pure Elixir to JS for the browser
https://web.dev/blog/webgpu-supported-major-browsers – Article announcing WebGPU is now supported in major browsers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGPU_API – MDN documentation for WebGPU API - successor to WebGL providing better GPU compatibility and advanced features

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