Episode description

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