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Erlang-Runtime Statically-Typed Functional Language Gleam Reaches 1.0
Gleam, an actor-based highly-concurrent functional language running on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM), has reached version 1.0, which means it is now ready to be used in production systems with a guarantee of backward compatibility based on semantic versioning.
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Interfacing Elixir with Rust to Improve Performance: Discord's Story
When the Discord team hit a hard-limit on BEAM's performance dealing with large data structures, they resorted to interfacing Elixir with Rust to make their system able to scale up to 11 million concurrent users.
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Elixir 1.7 Improves Error Handling, Logging, and Testing
Elixir 1.7 is focused on quality of life improvements, writes Elixir creator José Valim. Those include a new __STACKTRACE__ construct to retrieve the stacktrace, integration with Erlang’s new :logger module, improvements to Elixir’s unit testing library ExUnit, and support for metadata in documentation.
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Elixir 1.5 Improves Developer Experience
Recently released Elixir 1.5 brings many improvements to the developer experience. An interview with José Valim, Elixir creator and maintainer.
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Elixir 1.3 Brings New Language Features, APIs, and Improved Tooling
Elixir 1.3, recently announced by José Valim, deprecates imperative assignments and adds new types and accessors, improves its Mix build tool and the ExUnit unit testing framework.
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Elixir Hits 1.1, Brings new APIs, Build-time Improvements
One year after hitting 1.0, Elixir 1.1 is out. It brings new public APIs, performance improvements, and tooling improvements. InfoQ has spoken with José Valim, Elixir’s creator.