Elixir's Creator José Valim on the Development of a New Language

21/12/2020 30 min Episodio 25
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 bornElixir's functional rootsThe role of Erlang VMModeling concurrency in ElixirThe milestones of creating a new programming languageExtensibility as a mustElixir macros enable the ecosystemTips to stay focusedAbout Semaphore UncutIn each episode of Semaphore Uncut, we invite software industry professionals to discuss the impact they are making and what excites them about the emerging technologies.

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