Episode 124: EMx 050: Elixir Origin Story with José Valim

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José Valim, the creator of Elixir, shares his story with the panel starting with why he built Elixir. The panel wonders why José did not just use Erlang. José discusses what he wanted from Elixir and what problems he wanted to solve. The panel discusses concurrency, Metaprogramming, ad hoc polymorphism, and run times. José talks about what it was like as elixir grew in popularity and maintaining Elixir. José shares his goals for Elixir for 2019 and discusses his role in different projects. The panel shares their love for the friendliness and openness of the Elixir community and asks José how it became that way. The history of the signature heart emojis is shared. José shares a little about his everyday life and the things he enjoys to do. The episode ends with an update on the Erlang Ecosystems Foundation.  Panel Mark Ericksen Michael Ries Charles Max Wood Josh Adams Guest José Valim Sponsors  Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial  Next Level Mastermind Links https://erlef.org/ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwz1DqVWkAAT4tr.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc_polymorphism https://github.com/dynamo/dynamo https://github.com/grych/drab https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto https://phoenixframework.org/ https://github.com/beam-telemetry/telemetry https://hex.pm/packages/broadway https://hexdocs.pm/broadway/0.2.0/Broadway.html https://hexdocs.pm/gen_stage/0.14.1/GenStage.html https://hexdocs.pm/flow/0.14.3/Flow.html https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_pubsub/pull/121#issuecomment-466673652 https://github.com/nashby/jose-vs-oss http://pages.plataformatec.com.br/elixir-development-subscription https://twitter.com/josevalim https://github.com/josevalim https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix https://twitter.com/elixir_mix Picks Mark - https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted Josh- RubyHack 2019 – Ruby3: What's Missing? by Yukihiro (Matz) Matsumoto Josh- The Giant Chicken Brahma Charles- https://www.theblaze.com/news/scientists-create-first-3d-printed-heart Charles- https://podwrench.com Charles- https://podcastmovement.com/ Michael- Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix Michael- "Triste" ALBA ARMENGOU SANT ANDREU JAZZ BAND (JOAN CHAMORRO DIRECCIÓN) José- Chris McCord Keynote: Phoenix LiveView – Interactive, Real TIme Apps – No need to write Javascript José- Nintendo Switch