Keynote
summary
Narrative traces Elixir’s origin from commit graphs and failed prototypes to a language that abandons eval for LegoLang macros with lexical, compile‑time metaprogramming, claims Elixir 1.0 in 2014 and now reports Elixir 1.4 — 520 contributors and ~4,000 Hex.pm packages, details goals of productivity, extensibility, compatibility, shows GenStage and Flow as two‑year research split into separate projects, notes task async_stream shipped in 1.4, and describes ongoing experiments (UTF‑8 atoms via Erlang 20, data‑streams/property testing, gen_http, formatter and LSP work).
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 8:16"Elixir" as of Apr/2011
- 11:07Elixir Goals
- 12:15Meta-programming
- 18:16Elixir v1.4
- 22:13Some mutable 00 language
- 33:49When to create processes?
- 43:00elixir Announcing GenStage
- 50:10GenHTTP
- 53:09Built and designed at
