Thinking Elixir Podcast

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Thinking Elixir Podcast

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The Thinking Elixir podcast is a weekly show where we talk about the Elixir programming language and the community around it. We cover news and interview guests to learn more about projects and developments in the community. Whether you are already experienced with Elixir or just exploring the language, this show is created with you in mind. We discuss community news, Functional Programming, transitioning from OOP, coding conventions, and more. Guests visit the show to help challenge our assumptions, learn about new developments and grow in the process. Subscribe to join us on this journey!

Episodes

309: The Final Episode

<p>The final episode of Thinking Elixir after six incredible years of weekly episodes! We send things off in style with a packed news segment covering Phoenix LiveView 1.2's new colocated CSS powered ...
Jun 23, 202644m

308: Elixir Goes Gradually Typed

<p>Elixir v1.20 has officially landed, marking a huge milestone as the language is now officially a gradually typed language, type checking every single line of code without requiring developer annota...
Jun 16, 202632m

307: Trust Nothing, Sort Everything

<p>Mark shares a bittersweet housekeeping update — the Thinking Elixir Podcast is winding down, with the final episode airing June 23rd, 2026, closing the book on over six years of weekly shows. On th...
Jun 9, 202624m

306: Don't Exhaust Your Atoms

<p>Security takes center stage this week as the EEF's Jonatan Männchen highlights that atom exhaustion accounts for roughly one tenth of all CVEs in the BEAM ecosystem and Sobelow can help catch it be...
Jun 2, 202627m

305: Eleven Minutes to Mayhem

<p>News includes Elixir 1.20.0-rc.6 arriving as likely the final release candidate before v1.20.0 ships, completing a ~15-week roadmap and delivering full type inference across applications and depend...
May 26, 202632m

304: Types, CVEs, and Hot Reloads

<p>News includes a major milestone for Elixir's set-theoretic types as inference of all language constructs is completed and merged with Elixir v1.20.0-rc.5 hot on its heels, OTP 29.0 drops as a major...
May 19, 202627m

303: The Taming of the Slop

<p>News includes the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation publishing its 2026 board election candidates with voting now open, a new GitHub organization called Elixir-Vibe launching with tools to detect and fix...
May 12, 202631m

302: BEAM in Your Pocket

<p>News includes Mob, an exciting new framework that brings BEAM-on-device mobile development to Elixir with OTP running natively inside iOS and Android apps, Folio a new library for generating print-...
May 5, 202628m

301: Testing, Debugging, and Departures

<p>News includes Phoenix LiveDebugger hitting v1.0 with an interactive tour to go along with it, LiveStash v0.2.0 shipping with API improvements and a tease of Redis &amp; Mnesia adapters on the horiz...
Apr 28, 202617m

300: Celebrating 300 with José Valim

<p>It's Episode 300 — a milestone just under 6 years in the making! To celebrate, we kick things off with a fun song, then dive into the news: the Localize library v0.15.0 brings locale-aware formatti...
Apr 21, 20261h 24m

299: Don't Paste That Into Your Terminal

<p>The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation is seeking community support for a major grant to fund the Ægis security project and the deadline is April 17th to show support, Hex.pm published the results of its ...
Apr 14, 202642m

298: Hex Gets a Glow Up

<p>News includes the hex.pm website getting a fresh new redesign, the Hex 2.4 package manager upgrading to OAuth device flow authentication with two-factor authentication support for improved security...
Apr 7, 202620m

297: JavaScript Joins the BEAM?

<p>News includes Quickbeam, an exciting new research project that brings a full JavaScript runtime inside the BEAM with OTP supervision, native DOM access, and a built-in TypeScript toolchain, plus a ...
Mar 31, 202635m

296: OpenAI Chose Elixir and A VM Inside a VMV

<p>Elixir v1.20.0-rc.2 and rc.3 arrive with a faster compiler, better type inference, and improved incremental compilation; José Valim drops a low-key bombshell with Distributed Python running on top ...
Mar 24, 202646m

295: Is Your Type System Leaking?

<p>News includes José Valim publishing a deep technical post on Elixir's type system shift from DNFs to Lazy BDDs with eager literal intersections — cutting worst-case type checking from 10 seconds to...
Mar 10, 202627m

294: Compile Times, Language Servers, and Python, Oh My!

<p>News includes the long-awaited Expert LSP releasing its first release candidate — the unified Elixir Language Server merging Lexical and Next LS — with monorepo support and early adopter feedback a...
Mar 3, 202630m

293: The BEAM as the Universal Runtime

<p>News includes Hackney v3.1.0 dropping ~1.3 million lines of C code in favor of a pure Erlang QUIC implementation for HTTP/3 support, Benoît Chesneau's Hornbeam 1.0.0 bringing Erlang-powered hosting...
Feb 24, 202628m

292: Sage Advice for AI Agents

<p>TNews includes Mark announcing his new Sagents library for building AI agents with human-in-the-loop oversight and real-time debugging capabilities, José Valim's blog post on why Elixir is the best...
Feb 17, 202642m

291: From 2x Compilation to Junior Comprehension

<p>News includes José Valim announcing another major compilation time improvement coming to Elixir v1.20 achieving 2x speedup while adding the type checker, a new alternative Erlang syntax called Tele...
Feb 10, 202632m

290: Postgres Finally Gets Real Search

<p>News includes Elixir v1.20.0-rc.1 with important type system improvements, not one but two new Elixir-native Bash interpreters for seamless interop, LiveCapture bringing zero-boilerplate storybooks...
Feb 3, 202633m