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Elixir Wizards

Chris McCord and Jason Stiebs on the Future of Phoenix

Jun 1, 2023

58:12

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Episode notes

1.

Introduction

2min

2.

How to Build a Purple Martin House

2min

3.

Chris' Non-Tech Hobbies Keep Us Busy

2min

4.

The Future of a Lickser

2min

5.

How to Build a WebSockets Server

2min

6.

The 10th Season of Elixir Wizards

2min

7.

How to Build a Web Framework That's Scalable

2min

8.

The Importance of Jose's Framework in Elixir

2min

9.

Phoenix: The Future of Open Source

4min

10.

The Importance of Marketing in Open Source Projects

2min

11.

How to Balance Core Stuff and Core Stuff at Fly

3min

12.

The Debug Bar and the Phoenix Debugger

2min

13.

How to Debug a Time Traveling Tool

2min

14.

Dead Views

2min

15.

The Pain Points of Live View

4min

16.

The Mustache Brackets for Attributes in a Tag

2min

17.

The Future of Open Source Code

3min

18.

How to Make a Dynamic List in Live View

2min

19.

Phoenix Live View: A New Way to Use Forms

3min

20.

How to Use Checkboxes in PHP

4min

21.

How to Use HTML to Add Items to a Form

2min

22.

The Pain Point of Phoenix and Live Views

2min

23.

The Future of a Looker

2min

24.

Phoenix Live Views: The Future of Machine Learning

3min

25.

NX Serving: The Future of AI

2min

26.

How to Make Phoenix Better on the Platform

2min

27.

The Next 10 Years of Elixir

2min

Phoenix core team members Chris McCord and Jason Stiebs join Elixir Wizards Sundi Myint and Owen Bickford the growth of Phoenix and LiveView, the latest updates, and what they're excited to see in the future. They express excitement for the possibilities of machine learning, AI, and distributed systems and how these emerging technologies will enhance the user experience of Elixir and LiveView applications in the next decade.

Key Topics Discussed in this Episode:

How community contributions and feedback help improve Phoenix LiveView
The addition of function components, declarative assigns, HEEx, and streams
Why Ecto changesets should be used as "fire and forget" data structures
Excitement about machine learning and AI with libraries like NX
The possibility of distributed systems and actors in the future
Verifying and solving issues in the Phoenix and LiveView issue trackers
Why marketing plays a part in the adoption and mindshare of Phoenix
How streams provide a primitive for arbitrarily large dynamic lists
Elixir VM's ability to scale to millions of connections
A creative use of form inputs for associations with dynamic children

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Fly Site https://fly.io/
Keynote: The Road To LiveView 1.0 by Chris McCord | ElixirConf EU 2023
Keynote: I Was Wrong About LiveView by Jason Stiebs | ElixirConf 2022
Phoenix Site https://www.phoenixframework.org/
Phoenix Github https://github.com/phoenixframework
Two-Story, 10-Room Purple Martin House
Blog: The Road to 2 Million Websocket Connections in Phoenix
Raxx Elixir Webserver Interface https://hexdocs.pm/raxx/0.4.1/readme.html
Livebook Site https://livebook.dev/
Sundi’s 6’x 6’ Phoenix painting
Surface on Hex https://hex.pm/packages/surface
Axon Deep Learning Framework https://hexdocs.pm/axon/Axon.html
Nx Numerical Elixir https://hexdocs.pm/nx/intro-to-nx.html
Phoenix PubSub https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_pubsub/Phoenix.PubSub.html
Jason Stiebs on Twitter https://twitter.com/peregrine
Jason Stiebs on Mastodon https://merveilles.town/@peregrine

Special Guests: Chris McCord and Jason Stiebs.

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