When we started the project, we expected it to be a Go, Rust or even Node project. Instead, we landed with Elixir. Here is why and how we made that decision.
With Elixir v1.20, we have completed our first development milestone which is to perform type inference and gradually type check every Elixir program, without introducing type annotations. This means Elixir increasingly reports dead code and verified bugs: typing violations that are guaranteed to fail at runtime if executed. Elixir can find verified bugs in existing programs efficiently, without introducing developer overhead, and with an extremely low false positives rate.
Dashbit, Oban, and the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation (EEF) are glad to announce a new program, which we will trial over the next 12 months, called “Elixir Outreach”. Our goal is to provide funds to community members who want to present Elixir and Erlang to other ecosystems and communities, while respecting our joint values.
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Elixir v1.18 is an impressive release with improvements across the two main efforts happening within the Elixir ecosystem right now: set-theoretic types and language servers. It also comes with built-in JSON support and adds new capabilities to its unit testing library.
Djot is a markdown alternative, created by John MacFarlane, creator of Pandoc and spec author of CommonMark. It aims to fix many of the little issues Markdown has, and does a pretty good job of it, imo.
ExUnit is wonderful, and the functional paradigms that underpin Elixir let us write extremely complex tests in a fraction of the code that would be needed in OOP testing frameworks like RSpec.
But it's not all wine and roses. Tests can quickly accrue tons of boilerplate and repetition.
Using some Elixir features, you can cut down on these, and make tests even nicer to write.