ElixirConf US 2022 just finished! We cover the big announcements, talk highlights, and other relevant tech news. We discuss what some of these big announcements and projects represent and what they might mean for the Elixir community going forward. We talk about the Elixir 1.14 release, Livebook advances, Phoenix 1.7, machine learning progress, and the surprise announcement of Phoenix LiveView Native!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/115

Elixir Community News

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2022/09/01/elixir-v1-14-0-released/ – Elixir v1.14 officially released
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.14.0/CHANGELOG.md#changelog-for-elixir-v114 – Elixir 1.14 changelog
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.14.0/CHANGELOG.md#changelog-for-elixir-v114 – Nerves v1.9.0 fixed Elixir 1.14 warnings
Phoenix 1.7 upcoming release discussed
Phoenix 1.7 generators will use Tailwind CSS
New phx.gen.auth --live option
https://github.com/liveviewnative/liveview-client-swiftui – Phoenix LiveView Native was announced
https://github.com/liveviewnative/elixirconf_chat – ElixirConf Chat project created using Phoenix LiveView Native
https://getfirefly.org – Lumen was renamed to Firefly
https://twitter.com/HoldenOullette/status/1565486046237921280 – Podium released an OWASP security training LiveBook for Elixir developers.
https://github.com/podium/elixir-secure-coding – Elixir Secure Coding Training (ESCT)
https://www.ectoinproduction.com – Ecto In Production future home
https://github.com/liveshowy/webauthn_live_component – SmartLogic released a LiveComponent to support WebAuthn authentication for your LiveView app
https://github.com/liveshowy/webauthn_live_component_demo – WebAuthn authentication demo page
https://github.com/kipcole9/tempo – Kip Cole released a new kind of DateTime library called Tempo
https://kipcole9.github.io/tempo/2021-01-04-its-about-time/ – Temp blog post explains more about it.
https://twitter.com/steveschoger/status/1562117153591107586 – Heroicons v2.0 released. Used in TailwindUI templates.
https://twitter.com/louispilfold/status/1564247740879609860 – Louie Pilford showed a screenshot of Gleam compiling Elixir's Plug
https://blog.heroku.com/next-chapter – Heroku, a popular PaaS made significant policy changes. Ending free tier and more.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2022 – IEEE Top Programming Languages 2022
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1565408635961884673 – José Valim shared they are porting non-neural algorithms to Elixir/Nx which runs on both CPU/GPU. Shared impressive performance comparisons.
Chris Grainger gave a keynote about how Elixir is ready for real, production machine learning work.
https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2022 – Lambda Days conference. 5-6 June 2023 in Krakow, Poland

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115: ElixirConf 2022 Recap

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115: ElixirConf 2022 Recap