Elixir's Creator José Valim on the Development of a New Language
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In this episode of Semaphore Uncut, José Valim, the creator of the Elixir programming language shares with us insights on developing Elixir, from its inception to the road ahead.
José is the Chief Adoption Officer at Dashbit, speaker, and the author of three technical books.
We talked about:
- How Elixir was born
- Elixir's functional roots
- The role of Erlang VM
- Modeling concurrency in Elixir
- The milestones of creating a new programming language
- Extensibility as a must
- Elixir macros enable the ecosystem
- Tips to stay focused
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