Learn more about how the Discord team is using Elixir and the Erlang VM to deliver more than 26 million WebSocket events per second to more than 12 million concurrent users:
Elixir v1.16 released:
The notable improvements in this release are the addition of compiler diagnostics and extensive improvements to our docs in the forms of guides, anti-patterns, diagrams and more.
Enjoy!
Elixir v1.14.0 released:
A new debugging experience, the PartitionSupervised, improved error messages for binaries and evaluation, and more!
#MyElixirStatus
From Erlang/OTP 23 (currently RC1), we will be able to show Erlang docs directly from the Elixir shell. Here is a demo of a POC implementation: - a huge thank you to
@erlang_org
and the
@TheErlef
Documentation Working Group for making this possible!
Over the last 3 days the Elixir community and core team have been hard at work formatting all files in the Elixir codebase. We have received 214 Pull requests by 84 people and now all 452 files are properly formatted. 🎉
Elixir v1.6.2 is out! Bug fixes in the new DynamicSupervisor and defguard as well as improvements in the code formatter, including better support to format umbrella projects.
Elixir v1.9.0-rc.0 is out with releases support: - You can compile it with a version manager or from source to give it a try: - And please do give it a try!
Elixir v1.10 released: - Elixir v1.10 comes with improvements to the standard library, the compiler, as well as several additions to the mix release feature added in v1.9.
Learn how
@Mozilla
is using
@elixirphoenix
to empower their social virtual spaces in
@MozillaHubs
! All of it is open source with automated deployments via Hubs Cloud, which perhaps makes it the most deployed Phoenix application ever:
#MyElixirStatus
Learn how
@Change
uses Elixir to handle spikes of million of messages while keeping CPUs maxed out, memory usage to a minimum necessary, and without flooding upstream services:
👉 Their engineering team is also hiring Elixir devs:
Elixir v1.11.0-rc.0 released:
As a release candidate, it may not be available in distros, so check our install page for other means to install:
If you're using Elixir images, they should be available soon.
See how uses Elixir and RabbitMQ to help names like
@PaulMcCartney
,
@Metallica
, and
@BarackObama
connect to their audiences! Their busiest service runs on 5 nodes and handles spikes of millions of users:
ExDoc v0.20.0 is out with keyboard shortcuts, autocompletion, full-text search and more! Here are two examples of it live:
* Ecto v3.1:
* Elixir master:
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this amazing release! <3
Learn how
@V7Labs
is orchestrating computer vision and managing large data sets using Elixir, Phoenix, RabbitMQ, and more:
Plus, they are hiring!
#myelixirstatus
#machinelearning
Elixir v1.11.4 is out with some small fixes to make sure we nicely print some of the new/improved error messages in Erlang/OTP 24. It also updates mix local.rebar to install Rebar v3.14.4 (required by Erlang/OTP 24+).
Elixir v1.7 will adopt EEP 48 () which brings documentation interoperability between languages. It also allows custom metadata in docs, to enrich how documentation is consumed.
Learn why
@slab
chose
@elixirlang
and
@elixirphoenix
as the best-in-class tools to build real-time, collaborative web applications with great developer experience:
The Elixir community has done an amazing job in bringing Elixir to new domains and we are looking forward to the next five years: (José Valim keynote at
@ElixirConf
)
ExDoc v0.21.0 is out with many exciting features! First of all, ExDoc now detects if your browser prefers night mode and acts accordingly. It also includes many fixes for EPUB generation, including support for covers and cleaner code snippets (thanks to
@MarlusSaraiva
) [1/3]
And the latest feature in ExDoc v0.20 is out of the bag: versions dropdown! Screenshots attached. You can also give it a try here:
Thanks
@michal_lepicki
(from
@amberbit
) and
@wojtekmach
(from
@plataformatec
) for making it happen!
We are now featuring the cases we have published on our website directly on the homepage:
You can also access all cases in the order they were posted in its own page: - we have many more from a wide array of industries coming soon!
Another tiny but helpful improvement coming to the documentation is the addition of a "since" annotation, that tells you when a certain function/macro/callback/type was added:
Elixir v1.7.0-rc.1 is out: Please give it a try and let us know if you found any regressions. And if you didn't find bug, even better! Let us know that too!
Learn how the Search Marketing and Sales Intelligence Platform teams at
@PepsiCo
use Elixir:
Overall there are six teams at PepsiCo using Elixir at varying capacities!
#myelixirstatus
The Elixir repo has moved to Cirrus CI () so we can test Windows, Unix, and FreeBSD in a single CI environment. Thanks to the Cirrus CI team for the support and to
@fertapric
for carrying the migration!
ExDoc master got full-text search thanks to the work of and the
#lunrjs
library. For example, many developers would search for "custom guards" in Elixir docs and find nothing. Not anymore! Here is a demo:
Learn how SparkMeter is increasing access to electricity by using Elixir and its ecosystem - powered by Nerves, Phoenix, and Broadway - from ground to cloud: