Elixir v1.0.0 released

#1

Post by petercooper » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 2:28 PM UTC

Re: Elixir v1.0.0 released

#2

Post by knewter » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 3:50 PM UTC

Congratulations to everyone involved! I have all of 7 commits in, all trivial, but huge thanks to everyone in the committer list! It's amazing.

Re: Elixir v1.0.0 released

#3

Post by prezjordan » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 3:52 PM UTC

What have you built with Elixir, HN?

Re: Elixir v1.0.0 released

#4

Post by adefa » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 4:02 PM UTC

Wonder why the release announcement came days after it was available through homebrew?

Re: Elixir v1.0.0 released

#5

Post by rubiquity » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 4:04 PM UTC

adefa wrote: post #4

Wonder why the release announcement came days after it was available through homebrew?

The language creator and maintainers wanted to give package maintainers time to update their package dependencies to Elixir 1.0.

Re: Elixir v1.0.0 released

#6

Post by rubiquity » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 4:08 PM UTC

prezjordan wrote: post #3

What have you built with Elixir, HN?

Personally, in production I've used it for basic web apps, WebSockets and background workers that do the heavy lifting for a web application written in another language such as Ruby.

I've also talked to several others that are using Elixir for mobile game and Internet of Things back-ends.

Now that I'm more comfortable with the language I'm looking to use it for something more ambitious, such as a messaging layer that's specific to a cluster of application's needs.

Re: Elixir v1.0.0 released

#7

Post by mjackson » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 4:11 PM UTC

I'm constantly impressed by the level of execution of the Elixir project. In ~3 years they have accomplished much more than many other language ecosystems have to date.

It's great to see the core maintainers understand that you need MUCH more than just a compiler, runtime, and std lib to create a truly vibrant ecosystem. The Elixir project includes a standard way to do templating, a powerful and robust shell, a very full-featured unit testing library (not just assert statements), a standard logging system (this is sooo often overlooked), and, to top it all off, a build system that also lets you manage dependencies!

I honestly can't name any other ecosystem where you can just jump in and all these problems are already solved for you by the core project maintainers, instead of by 3rd parties competing for mindshare. It's truly refreshing because it gives the community a common language and toolchain to work with and get stuff done.

Hats off to everyone involved! You guys continue to amaze me.

Re: Elixir v1.0.0 released

#8

Post by jtmoulia » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 4:13 PM UTC

prezjordan wrote: post #3

What have you built with Elixir, HN?

Not product-y, but I've built a PEG interface [1]. Long term goal is to use it for parsing in an IMAP library.

[1] https://github.com/jtmoulia/neotomex

Re: Elixir v1.0.0 released

#9

Post by chrismccord » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 4:14 PM UTC

prezjordan wrote: post #3

What have you built with Elixir, HN?

We're working on Phoenix, a highly connected web framework that aims to serve as a backend for all devices, whether your web browser, native mobile client, or smart oven.

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix http://www.confreaks.com/videos/4132-elixirconf2014-rise-of-...

Re: Elixir v1.0.0 released

#10

Post by DoggettCK » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 4:16 PM UTC

prezjordan wrote: post #3

What have you built with Elixir, HN?

I'm playing with replacing my Python analytics system with Elixir, piece by piece. Working on a little tool with it that'll convert our XML and JSON from two separate parts of the system to a common format.