I am looking for a new job. Elixir/erlang SWE and/or ops/SRE related. Size of the company does not matter. I have some ethical rules (gambling, blockchain and probably most AI company,...). I only work remotely from France. Yes I would prefer a FTE french contract, but I can do self employed contracts.
After 6 years of development, Phoenix LiveView is approaching 1.0.0 and Chris McCord (the creator) has written an excellent article about the journey and why LiveView is different.
We started using Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView in early 2020 and it has changed the way we build applications and think about problems. It still amazes me every day and most importantly: It is so much fun.
Nerves was one of my big ways into Elixir as a community. This Unpacking Elixir is about that project. Share it to those who might be curious or have Pis to spare.
It's one of the best talks I've ever watched! The first 10 minutes resonate so strongly with what I've been exploring recently. This guy just Gets It™️ (has quite the technical background too 😉).
Everything about this was so engaging and exciting. Really has me itching to look into it, years later.
The technical architecture is fascinating too! Seeing the supervision tree in action was really neat.
I was particularly happy to see him want to emulate some aspects of web development (and HTML), but gave himself room to innovate under well-defined constraints and goals.
And yet another reminder of the following wisdom: never bet against the BEAM 😁
subsequent talk that dives deeper into the technical aspects of Scenic. Really interesting stuff! (especially when framed with his bigger picture project)
@ids1024 purely fron a language perspective, that covers most of it, although would argue that the meta-programming capabilities is quite a big feature for Elixir (from what I can tell).
I found this writeup to be helpful (spoiler: Elixir is actually very LISP-like) - maybe it explains some of my distaste 😄
On that note, I'm spending some time over the next couple of weeks learning #Elixir to ramp up for my new role. I've already been recommended Phoenix's tutorials, hit me up with more suggestions if you have them :D
@Catarina if it applies, livesvelte will make working with live views much nicer.
Also the pragmatic liveview tutorials are great.
Elixir casts are also worth watching.
@hq1 I plan to do initial release over the coming days. I need to get basic endpoints, docs, and tests in order so that anyone could easily add more endpoints. I'll ping you when it's released :)
I’m so mad at LiveView. It was advertised as “replacement for SPAs”, either by misunderstanding or just overhyping what it can do. Some folks I know started writing client applications in it and now they come back saying “this #elixir thing is too difficult”, putting the blame for misused framework at the whole runtime/language.
@Di4na The pitch I understood was "some SPAs can be replaced with LiveView" which is accurate but also very difficult to judge.
I know a significant number of people who have understood it as "All SPAs can now be done in LiveView" and "I don't need to write Javascript ever again" (that's one hell of a drug) and it is going as well as you can expect 🫠
After more than a year of development, I'm proud to officially announce the launch of Brinjel, the open source crop-planning and record-keeping software. Try it free for one month!
#Elixir if often looked through the lenses of how easy it is to scale in production, but the scalability of other areas like fast test execution thanks to parallelization and its functional paradigm are priceless. I wonder how well the compilation times scale
Ah nice!
The Australians have published my presentation on Erlang tracing for Elixirists. I might do a blog post or recording about this but not sure. This introduces Entrace for those who want a soft intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNLv_aQibpQ #elixir#erlang
@vindarel@jacobat The good thing about HTMX over LiveView (or any other framework of that kind) is that it is independent from any server-side implementation.
