I am looking for a new job. Elixir/erlang SWE and/or ops/SRE related. Size of the company does not matter. I have some ethical rules (gambling, blockchain and probably most AI company,...). I only work remotely from France. Yes I would prefer a FTE french contract, but I can do self employed contracts.
After 6 years of development, Phoenix LiveView is approaching 1.0.0 and Chris McCord (the creator) has written an excellent article about the journey and why LiveView is different.
We started using Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView in early 2020 and it has changed the way we build applications and think about problems. It still amazes me every day and most importantly: It is so much fun.
Nerves was one of my big ways into Elixir as a community. This Unpacking Elixir is about that project. Share it to those who might be curious or have Pis to spare.
It's one of the best talks I've ever watched! The first 10 minutes resonate so strongly with what I've been exploring recently. This guy just Gets It™️ (has quite the technical background too 😉).
Everything about this was so engaging and exciting. Really has me itching to look into it, years later.
The technical architecture is fascinating too! Seeing the supervision tree in action was really neat.
I was particularly happy to see him want to emulate some aspects of web development (and HTML), but gave himself room to innovate under well-defined constraints and goals.
And yet another reminder of the following wisdom: never bet against the BEAM 😁
subsequent talk that dives deeper into the technical aspects of Scenic. Really interesting stuff! (especially when framed with his bigger picture project)
@ids1024 purely fron a language perspective, that covers most of it, although would argue that the meta-programming capabilities is quite a big feature for Elixir (from what I can tell).
I found this writeup to be helpful (spoiler: Elixir is actually very LISP-like) - maybe it explains some of my distaste 😄
On that note, I'm spending some time over the next couple of weeks learning #Elixir to ramp up for my new role. I've already been recommended Phoenix's tutorials, hit me up with more suggestions if you have them :D
@Catarina if it applies, livesvelte will make working with live views much nicer.
Also the pragmatic liveview tutorials are great.
Elixir casts are also worth watching.