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OndrejValenta
(I just needed to vent somewhere and LinkedIn is full of hope, or hype, I’m not sure which exactly) AI dream has many faces, but general...
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jam
This was an interesting post by Jose. Curious to hear what others think. Evolving programming languages in the AI era - Dashbit Blog Gen...
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spasm-myelixlabs
Hey everyone, We’re a tiny dev team, and we wanted to share something we’ve been building and dogfooding internally for months: Synapse ...
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drfreeze
I built a WebTransport transport for Phoenix sockets and LiveView and put it on GitHub with a demo and a spec: GitHub - jfreeze/phoenix_w...
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AstonJ
We’ve spoken about AI-related job losses for a while now, and while Elixir may be a little more protected than some languages so there’s ...
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OndrejValenta
(I just needed to vent somewhere and LinkedIn is full of hope, or hype, I’m not sure which exactly) AI dream has many faces, but general...
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drfreeze
I built a WebTransport transport for Phoenix sockets and LiveView and put it on GitHub with a demo and a spec: GitHub - jfreeze/phoenix_w...
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jam
This was an interesting post by Jose. Curious to hear what others think. Evolving programming languages in the AI era - Dashbit Blog Gen...
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spasm-myelixlabs
Hey everyone, We’re a tiny dev team, and we wanted to share something we’ve been building and dogfooding internally for months: Synapse ...
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budgie
A little off-topic, but I feel like people here have a good head on their shoulders. I used to be quite good at making software. Was luc...
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webofbits
With AI doing more of the implementation work, I’ve been wondering how much coding I should deliberately keep doing myself. My main conc...
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budgie
I love Elixir. It’s one of 2 programming languages I’ve ever fallen in love with. But I don’t use it anymore. Serverless was the promis...
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Null-logic-0
What IDE or editor are you using for Elixir development? Personally, I use Zed, and I really like it, but sometimes I wish there were a ...
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AstonJ
We’ve spoken about AI-related job losses for a while now, and while Elixir may be a little more protected than some languages so there’s ...
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AstonJ
Following on from some recent threads about AI and AI created projects I’m curious what people have been creating with AI tools …and perh...
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preciz
I like to find performance optimizations and hidden bugs in Elixir codebases with coding agents. If I just ask them directly to find tho...
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aus
Hi everybody, A few months ago I needed a log dashboard for my Phoenix app. I looked at a few cloud services, but since I didn’t need an...
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nathanl
At your job, are people using AI to create stories (Jira tickets or whatever you use)? If so, what’s your experience with that - creating...
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ersaurav
Hi everyone, I’m working with a Laravel-based eCommerce application and evaluating whether Elixir/Phoenix would make sense as a separate...
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CodeSync
Just a reminder for anyone still on the fence: early bird pricing for Code BEAM Europe closes on 8 September at 23:59 CEST. This is the l...
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CodeSync
Sept 10-11, live from Chicago. Can’t make the trip? Grab a virtual pass and stream the whole thing from wherever you are. You get every ...
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srowley
I have really enjoyed dialing in a set of static analysis tools and skills that help me help LLMs write better code. One gap I haven’t se...
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vkryukov
People are constantly debating which LLM is better for writing Elixir code, so I decided to compare the three SoA models from Google, Ope...
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sergio
As more and more code is written by agents, driven by humans, what strategies are you employing to keep the slop at bay? Managing a team...
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dominicletz
Hey there, I haven’t seen a list of useful Elixir specific skills for the popular AI tools yet so I’m starting one here with my first. ...
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dimamik
OpenAI published a repo built primarily with Elixir (96.1%). https://github.com/openai/symphony https://github.com/openai/symphony/blob...
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mudasobwa
I am happy to introduce the very α version of the new programming language compiled to BEAM. Welcome Cure. It has literally three kille...
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raa-ziq
Hi everyone :waving_hand: I wanted to share something I’ve been building — NowBlind, a random chat app designed to help people discover ...
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mhanberg
Hi everyone! The first release candidate for the Expert language server project is now available! We’ve published a press release detai...
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mlainez
For a few years now, I’ve been hesitant to buy an e-reader. I dislike that most of them have closed ecosystems. I was waiting for a “hack...
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Vidar
So in case others find them useful here are 3 of the skills I use. They work pretty well together. Avoid Claude starting agents to plan a...
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KristerV
Hey. Is there anyone here who creates agents in their apps? Not talking about using agents, but creating them. I’m finding it pretty diff...
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DaAnalyst
Been using Claude for over a week now (Opus 4.6 then 4.7, max subscription). Honestly, can’t hide my joy, at some points feeling even ash...
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brendon9x
I’m CTO of a scale-up called Zappi and have switched the company from Ruby to Elixir, meaning all new backend services are now Elixir. I ...
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Vidar
I’ve been trying to come up with a fairly real life representative way of evaluating code quality from AI, and by extension the functiona...
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sergio
Kind of like when jquery came out, it was super necessary. Existing drag and drop libraries have a bunch of baggage to support old browse...
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AstonJ
Posting this to see if we can make things easier for people to get into Neovim. If you use Neovim and have a favourite distro please let ...
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matthias_toepp
I’d love to hear what people think about Wisp, the new Gleam web framework started by Gleam’s primary creator Louis Pilfold. Gleam, alon...
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arcanemachine
https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1744395345872683471 https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1744395345872683471
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shishini
I think this twitter post and youtube video didn’t get as much attention as I hoped I am still new to Elixir, so can’t really judge ...
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Nezteb
I frequently switch between ElixirLS, Lexical, and Next LS in order to test each out and compare/contrast. I decided to create a brief fe...
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dimitarvp
Hello, I am looking to more closely understand the advantages of the Repo.transact pattern and the quoted disadvantages of Ecto.Multi. ...
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juhalehtonen
There has been a thread to discuss the Stack Overflow Developer Survey on this forum every year since 2018, so here’s yet another one for...
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omerss2311
As a developer with experience in many languages, Elixir feels very attractive to me because of its (and in general the OTP platform’s) u...
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caslu
I want to open this thread for you all to discuss and help those who really like Ash but are still hesitant to use it in a real project. ...
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tonydang
Hi everyone! I’m new to the forums and new to Elixir in general. To learn Elixir, I recently just completed my first app. It’s a todo app...
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bartblast
Some SEO details here: An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents with Me; Everyone in SEO Should See The...
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josefrichter
Seems like this one is not here yet: Imagine if we could auto scale simply by wrapping any existing app code in a function and have tha...
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garrison
For those who are not aware, “AI agents” are, for the most part, commodity LLMs which are given access to “tools” and prompted to complet...
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NickGnd
Hey :waving_hand: Tidewave has just been announced by José Valim :fire: Watch Tidewave transform Claude Desktop into an agent by runni...
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AstonJ
As the title says, please share what you’ve been up to with Elixir. Whether that’s been learning it, looking into it, making stuff with i...
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TunkShif
This post is an instruction guide to help you setup your Neovim for Elixir development from scratch. It includes general information on h...
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axelson
This post is a wiki (feel free to hit the edit button near the bottom right of this post to add your own changes!) This post collects co...
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JakeBecker
TL;DR: I’ve just released an implementation of Microsoft’s IDE-independent Language Server Protocol for Elixir. It adds language support ...
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AstonJ
The obligatory hello world thread! Who are you and where are you from? :stuck_out_tongue:
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uranther
What combination of libraries do you use for your Phoenix web app for standard user authentication? There are a couple listed in the awes...
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dyowee23
Will future versions of Elixir be appropriate for data science/machine learning projects, like Scala or F#?
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uranther
I want to write Big Data applications in Elixir using, for example, the Lambda architecture. However, most of these software packages are...
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gausby
I asked this very same question on twitter and got some interesting feedback, but I thought it would be a good question to ask here as we...
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dogweather
I wrote this comment on r/haskell, and it’s not popular there. :wink: But I think I’m on to something… Haskell reminds me of Java, and e...
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AstonJ
Seen any cool LiveView demos, sample apps or examples? Please post them here! :003:
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AstonJ
Vim fan here, but hear a lot of great things about Emacs, Sublime, Atom and even TextMate 2.. Edit: Please see this more recent thread:
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Onor.io
One question that came up for me when I first started with FP was how to do things that I was able to do in imperative without mutable va...
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uranther
What do you all think about writing a blockchain in Elixir? Being a functional language and having OTP in our arsenal, it seems it would ...
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AstonJ
A wiki for Spacemacs Spacemacs with Alchemist is an extremely popular set-up to use for Elixir development. Give it a try by following ou...
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