Elixir – HUGE Release Coming Soon • Hacker News Board

sb8244 wrote: post #7

tiffanyh wrote: post #5

I thought Elixir was "feature complete". https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2019/06/24/elixir-v1-9-0-releas... Granted, that doesn't mean it won't be worked on. But it does implies nothing "huge" will be happening.

It doesn't mean that the thing will be in the Elixir language. Nx was teased in a similar way and ended up being an external library.

That's what I'm thinking too, unless José has a secret Elixir branch. Might be a brand new tool.

Re: Elixir – HUGE Release Coming Soon

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Post by suprfnk » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 2:59 PM UTC

threeaccents wrote: post #6

I hope its a big update with static types

I thought so too, but Jose Valim says "never before seen on Elixir or the BEAM", while Gleam exists and Jose undoubtedly knows about that project:

https://gleam.run/

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Post by tiffanyh » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 3:01 PM UTC

zach_garwood wrote: post #12

threeaccents wrote: post #6

I hope its a big update with static types

That would be neat! I would really like it if added optional typing like Python or PHP.

I thought Erlang lacked a type system.

How would this work since Elixir compiles into BEAM byte code (via Erlang Abstract Format)?

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Post by worthless-trash » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 3:01 PM UTC

fud101 wrote: post #3

Any good guesses?

Native system target compile for beam/elixir.

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Post by sph » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 3:02 PM UTC

threeaccents wrote: post #6

I hope its a big update with static types

IIRC José recently said he was was gonna spend some time thinking about Elixir's approach to typing, so that's probably it.

My hope is a smaller runtime that works well for CLI tools. I'd love to use Elixir for small scripts I'd ordinarily use Go/Python for.

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Post by beck5 » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 3:02 PM UTC

fud101 wrote: post #3

Any good guesses?

replacement for dialyzer?

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Post by conradfr » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 3:04 PM UTC

fud101 wrote: post #3

Any good guesses?

Finally, externally visible module constants (i.e attributes)!

Ok, probably not, but one can dream.

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Post by andy_ppp » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 3:07 PM UTC

threeaccents wrote: post #6

I hope its a big update with static types

Yes, but there’s a PhD student working with Jose on this and I think the timeline was 18 months. My guess is it’s a joke around how stable everything in the Elixir world remains compared to other constantly evolving ecosystems.