José Valim returns to continue with part 3 of our 5 part series as we count down to the 10 year anniversary of the Elixir project we know and love. In Part 3, we talk through the Elixir releases of 1.7, 1.8, and 1.9. We talk about the unification efforts between Elixir and Erlang. These came through changes to error stacktraces, how documentation is stored, a unified logger, and more. We learn how features like Mix.target made a big difference for the Nerves project. We also hear the call for contributors to help bring a few remaining date/time features to Elixir. The big feature in Elixir 1.9 was the addition of deployment releases and the early efforts at managing config for releases. We thought this would be a short episode but found there was a lot to talk about and learn!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/91

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/bencheeorg/benchee – Benchee 1.1.0 release
https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2022/03/08/benchee-1-1-0-released-why-did-it-take-so-long/ – Blog post on Benchee release and why the release took so long
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1501482561511510018 – ExDoc gets a new minor feature that lets us syntax highlight HEEx templates
https://elixirpatterns.dev/ – “Elixir Patterns” book is being pre-launched by the authors, Alex Koutmos and Hugo Baraúna.
https://davelucia.com/blog/avro-2.0 – AvroEx 2.0 released
https://www.functionalconf.com/ – Functional Conference 2022 - Asia's Premier Functional Programming Conference

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/82 – Part 1
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/87 – Part 2
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.7/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir changelog for v1.7
https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0048 – EEP 48
https://hexdocs.pm/nx/Nx.html
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.8/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir changelog for v1.8
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Kernel.html#guards – Elixir docs on guards
“dunder“ = a Double Underscore
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Protocol.html#derive/3 – Protocol derive
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Inspect.html#module-deriving – Deriving for inspect
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.9/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir changelog for v1.9
https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Schema.html#field/3-options
https://hex.pm/packages/date_time_parser
https://github.com/bitwalker/distillery – Mix package used for releases before it was built into Elixir.

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/josevalim – on Twitter
https://github.com/josevalim – on Github
https://dashbit.co/ – Dashbit website and blog
https://erlef.org/news/ – The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation news

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