How About Tomorrow?

José Valim tells us about Elixir

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José Valim, the creator of Elixir, joins Dax to tell us the story behind how it was born and what makes it great.

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:30) - José gets into streaming
  • (02:34) - Dax's experience with Elixir
  • (04:08) - The beginning
  • (12:25) - Functional Programming
  • (26:00) - Modules and functions
  • (33:12) - Standard Library
  • (42:19) - Should tooling be built in?
  • (48:52) - Elixir ecosystem
  • (01:00:19) - Patterns
  • (01:02:02) - Typesafety
  • (01:13:03) - Takeaway
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