episode focusing on Elixir?

[alxndr]

Hey y'all,

The Elixir language released version 1 in September 2014. This new language runs on Erlang's virtual machine (and so can access Erlang code including the OTP framework) and has syntax partially inspired by Ruby. I think it'd be interesting to hear about putting together and/or using and/or learning a new language, especially with its foundation in Erlang.

Guest ideas?

• José Valim, the creator of the language, also a prolific contributor to Rails core
• Dave Thomas, of Pragmatic Bookshelf, wrote Programming Elixir
• authors of one/more of the active frameworks/libraries/clients available
• ...

Topic ideas?

• threading/processes/servers-and-clients as a first-class concept
• a comment from José which lays out how lessons learned from Dynamo made it into other frameworks/libraries, and also mentions some Elixir projects/tools which take inspiration from interesting sources
• what's OTP like
• are erlang's performance numbers real
• ...

[jerodsanto]

@alxndr we'd LOVE to do a show on Elixir! @josevalim would you – and/or others on the Elixir core team – be interested in joining us on The Changelog?

[SebastianSzturo]

+1

[jerodsanto]

Closing this as we've lined up an Elixir-related show in #130. Thanks for the suggestion!

[alxndr]

:+1:

[alxndr]

Whoa finally got around to listening to 147 and thanks for the shoutout!

(And high five for getting my last name right! :raised_hands:)

[SebastianSzturo]

Really great and interesting episode. Also thanks to the shoutout! (And don't worry about not getting my last name right :P)

[adamstac]

:+1:

BTW episode 194 is with @josevalim :)