Elixir

Towards the end of November I gave a flash talk at the London Elixir Meetup. This time I was talking about the journey from println debugging to proper tracing and bringing Erlang tools to Elixir programmers. You can watch the talk here: …and here are the slides: The resulting Rexbug project is ready to be used but there’s still some issues I could use some help on - some should even be suitable for Elixir beginners.

Last year, I saw José Valim give his keynote at the ElixirLive conference in Warsaw, where he talked about the motivation for his new Elixir libraries: GenStage and Flow. Even though I heard about those before, it was the keynote when I “got” what the libraries were good for and why they were neat - and I decided to play around with them.

July 2019 update: # I have since moved to neovim for all my Linux/OSX work, and I’m very happy with it. The information here is probably very outdated, but I’m leaving it here for posterity You can see my neovim configuration in my dotfiles Earlier this year I joined Mainframe as a backend engineer. I didn’t do any real development in elixir before and I wanted to become productive with it ASAP. When it comes to elixir there were some good books to help me understand it better, but I also needed an editor or and IDE that would give me the necessary tools without getting in my way.