José Valim tells us about Elixir
José Valim, the creator of Elixir, joins Dax to tell us the story behind how it was born and what makes it great.
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:30) - José gets into streaming
- (02:34) - Dax's experience with Elixir
- (04:08) - The beginning
- (12:25) - Functional Programming
- (26:00) - Modules and functions
- (33:12) - Standard Library
- (42:19) - Should tooling be built in?
- (48:52) - Elixir ecosystem
- (01:00:19) - Patterns
- (01:02:02) - Typesafety
- (01:13:03) - Takeaway
