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Re: Elixir 1.5 released

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Post by blatyo »

Existenceblinks wrote: post #12

It's a fast-paced development! That's pretty great. I hope core team would consider slowing down a bit and catch up with Deployment, Monitoring(which Phoenix team working on it) and Platform(e.g. http/2) departments. v1.5 seems to have a bunch of bug fixes and deprecation (Hah! I'm not sure if it's like move fast and break thing). It is potentially the case. In every important part, there seems to have a solo smart p…

You mentioned the phoenix team is working on monitoring. Can you point me to where you heard that or any work being done on it?

Re: Elixir 1.5 released

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Post by pmontra »

Existenceblinks wrote: post #12

It's a fast-paced development! That's pretty great. I hope core team would consider slowing down a bit and catch up with Deployment, Monitoring(which Phoenix team working on it) and Platform(e.g. http/2) departments. v1.5 seems to have a bunch of bug fixes and deprecation (Hah! I'm not sure if it's like move fast and break thing). It is potentially the case. In every important part, there seems to have a solo smart p…

Yep, I just finished to setup a build and deploy system for Phoenix using edeliver and it's definitely not nice. A bunch of files in different languages, it feels unnecessarily hard. I hope that'll put some effort in that.

Re: Elixir 1.5 released

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Post by Existenceblinks »

pmontra wrote: post #22
Existenceblinks wrote: post #12

It's a fast-paced development! That's pretty great. I hope core team would consider slowing down a bit and catch up with Deployment, Monitoring(which Phoenix team working on it) and Platform(e.g. http/2) departments. v1.5 seems to have a bunch of bug fixes and deprecation (Hah! I'm not sure if it's like move fast and break thing). It is potentially the case. In every important part, there seems to have a solo smart p…

Yep, I just finished to setup a build and deploy system for Phoenix using edeliver and it's definitely not nice. A bunch of files in different languages, it feels unnecessarily hard. I hope that'll put some effort in that.

You could check https://github.com/labzero/bootleg which is simpler and flexible. (and of course missing some features)

Re: Elixir 1.5 released

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Post by hackerboos »

blatyo wrote: post #21
Existenceblinks wrote: post #12

It's a fast-paced development! That's pretty great. I hope core team would consider slowing down a bit and catch up with Deployment, Monitoring(which Phoenix team working on it) and Platform(e.g. http/2) departments. v1.5 seems to have a bunch of bug fixes and deprecation (Hah! I'm not sure if it's like move fast and break thing). It is potentially the case. In every important part, there seems to have a solo smart p…

You mentioned the phoenix team is working on monitoring. Can you point me to where you heard that or any work being done on it?

Shipping in 1.4 I believe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfFpIjFOL-I

Re: Elixir 1.5 released

#25

Post by sjm »

FlyingSnake wrote: post #6

Elixir is truly an under-appreciated language. I've only toyed with it, and I'm really impressed with the whole ecosystem. Elixir, Phoenix, Ecto, Hex, etc all make a great ecosystem, and the awesomeness that is BEAM/OTP is just amazing. I loved the hot code deploys, and updating a system while it's running is something I've never seen before in action. Also Rustler is a great way to write CPU intensive NIF code too.

Agreed, it's just an absolute pleasure to use.

I built a side-project powered by Elixir & Phoenix 1.2, I found it so surprisingly quick and easy to accomplish even complex functionality. Every time I implemented a new feature server-side it honestly felt like "Is that it? Really?"

Re: Elixir 1.5 released

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Post by Existenceblinks »

blatyo wrote: post #21
Existenceblinks wrote: post #12

It's a fast-paced development! That's pretty great. I hope core team would consider slowing down a bit and catch up with Deployment, Monitoring(which Phoenix team working on it) and Platform(e.g. http/2) departments. v1.5 seems to have a bunch of bug fixes and deprecation (Hah! I'm not sure if it's like move fast and break thing). It is potentially the case. In every important part, there seems to have a solo smart p…

You mentioned the phoenix team is working on monitoring. Can you point me to where you heard that or any work being done on it?

It's from Chris' keynote https://youtu.be/pfFpIjFOL-I?t=23m31s I haven't checked any task/issue tracker though.

Re: Elixir 1.5 released

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Post by plainOldText »

FlyingSnake wrote: post #6

Elixir is truly an under-appreciated language. I've only toyed with it, and I'm really impressed with the whole ecosystem. Elixir, Phoenix, Ecto, Hex, etc all make a great ecosystem, and the awesomeness that is BEAM/OTP is just amazing. I loved the hot code deploys, and updating a system while it's running is something I've never seen before in action. Also Rustler is a great way to write CPU intensive NIF code too.

+1 for rustler. Writing NIFs (native implemented functions) in Rust can speed up your Elixir apps significantly. I think Rust & Elixir are a great duo.

Re: Elixir 1.5 released

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Post by qaq »

josevalim wrote: post #5

Official announcement: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2017/07/25/elixir-v1-5-0-releas... We have published a draft version of the announcement since the release notes are not super helpful for those unfamiliar with Elixir. Is it possible to update the link to the official announcement? Thank you! EDIT: We are done with the changes on the draft. We've added asciicinema snippets to show some features, improved the sectio…

Thanks you and all team members for amazing work! Elixir is truly a breath of fresh air it's really painful to go back to node at work :)

Re: Elixir 1.5 released

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Post by raphy »

Great news, all those debugging improvements look great. I was actually considering how break points would help me on my current debugging.

I've been using Elixir for almost two years now and it's no silver bullet, but overall it has been a really great experience.

Re: Elixir 1.5 released

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Post by raphy »

FlyingSnake wrote: post #6

Elixir is truly an under-appreciated language. I've only toyed with it, and I'm really impressed with the whole ecosystem. Elixir, Phoenix, Ecto, Hex, etc all make a great ecosystem, and the awesomeness that is BEAM/OTP is just amazing. I loved the hot code deploys, and updating a system while it's running is something I've never seen before in action. Also Rustler is a great way to write CPU intensive NIF code too.

I wonder how the popularity trend of Elixir has been lately. I know you can try to see it through GitHub or Google Trends, but as many members of the Elixir community use Slack I don't know if it's the best way to do it. One thing I'd like to see would be the evolution of downloads of the language and on Hex.
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