This Week in Elixir and Erlang #15

Hello and Happy New Year! Welcome to the first edition of This Week in Elixir and Erlang for 2021. I took a one-week break to focus on finishing my book pet project. While this book is not Elixir-related, I have intentions to write a tiny one about our favorite ecosystem. Please, feel free to let me know if you think a niche topic has not been given enough attention in the form below (anonymous).
Have your saySpeaking about forms, do you recall the poll from last time? I asked you how you found 2020 as a year on a scale from 1 to 10. Thirty-five folks responded with an average result of 5.80. Not a stunning outcome, but hey, anything beyond the average for a year like 2020 is quite an achievement! Let's cross fingers for 2021.
We have a lot to cover for those two weeks, so I am moving straight to the links.
Announcements
This weekend, on January 9th, it has been 10 years since the first commit to the Elixir repository!š
— JosĆ© Valim (@josevalim) January 11, 2021
To celebrate, I wrote an article detailing the different domains Elixir is used at and highlighted some of the exciting developments coming this year: https://t.co/MR903c4C6d
IntelliJ Elixir v11.9.0
— Luke Imhoff (@KronicDeth) January 8, 2021
Update plugin without restart
Documentation from source and .beams using EEP-48
Decompilation has @moduledoc, @doc, and function params.
Elixir 1.11
IntelliJ 2020.2https://t.co/ToLJSXTR9Fhttps://t.co/Vn35auRIqX#myelixirstatus
Community Voices
I love when I see startups that offer developers on other runtimes what the BEAM offers out of the box. Maybe when everyone sees how great this stuff is theyāll come on over to get _all_ the good stuff š https://t.co/X0ypTNJts9
— Devon C. Estes (@devoncestes) January 11, 2021
Looks like itās time to welcome another @elixirlang unicorn to the club! Congrats ā¦@SalesLoft and ā¦@YOOOODAAAAā© https://t.co/vMlr6QrRKm
— Devon C. Estes (@devoncestes) January 6, 2021
So, it,s been a whole year now since I started working @SimplebetHQ I thought I'd recap some of my experiences. If any of it sounds interesting to you, I think we'll be hiring in the near future. https://t.co/KD5tt6CFU7 #myelixirstatus
— todd resudek (@sprsmpl) January 9, 2021
I really like podcasts. The openness, the voices, the connection. The deeper conversations.
— Lars Wikman (@lawik) January 11, 2021
Here I recommend a few that I found great as I was starting my business as an independent.https://t.co/AD3AJjIYrc#indie #developer #podcasts #freeagent
Books I want to write:
— James Edward Gray II (@JEG2) December 29, 2020
1. Bad Elixirs (distribution, mnesia, hot code loading)
2. Learn Elixir via Games
3. DIY Elixir Deployments
I teased this on the latest podcast, but Iām seriously considering writing a ābookā on building, testing, and deploying stateful elixir apps this year.
— Chris "The Other Chris" Keathley (@ChrisKeathley) January 1, 2021
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