0) ElixirConf 2017 Talks List (all talks now added!)

Oh Twitch uses Elixir that’s good to know

That Elixir Native UI talk was very interesting.

Day 2 videos starting to go up - added what’s available to the first post.. including José’s keynote

They are super fast

Some highlights from José’s keynote:

Elixir Design Goals

Starts at 17:59

Elixir’s original design goals were:

1. Productivity (when writing Elixir code)
2. Extensibility (of Elixir and Elixir code)
3. Compatability (with Erlang and the existing ecosystem)

But now the language has matured and both Extensibility and Compatability are mainly solved problems, and Elixir development is focusing more on:

1. Productivity (when writing Elixir)
2. Maintainability (of being able to read and reason about and modify existing Elixir code)
3. Reliability (and fault tolerance of Elixir software)

Elixir R&D (The Future)

Starts at 44:58

1. Code Formatter (planned for Elixir v1.6, due ~Jan 2018)
2. Data Streams and Property Testing (planned for Elixir v1.6, due ~Jan 2018)
3. Releases (planned for ???, we have Distillery, etc that reduce pressure a bit)
4. Cross-language Docs with Erlang/OTP (planned for ???)

That’s it - I think they’re all up now (added to first post)

I love how quickly they had been going up - definitely gives the conference a worldwide ‘live’ feel - well done to @drfreeze and everyone involved with organising it

Is this in one of the talks? Which talk is this?

Its this one
Streaming Video with Elixir - John Wahba

Strange that the comments on youtube are not allowed, at least for me. Some of the videos (the ecto one) have a lot of typos on the slides that could have been fixed by a comment.

Not to mention that it hinders discussion. With some approaches to the problems in some other videos I might even say I disagree (the twitch one).

Unfortunately YouTube (as a platform) seems to be attracting more and more trolls these days and so I’m guessing the conference team did not want to subject the speakers to that kind of thing or have to waste their time dealing with such matters.

They might feel that if discussions are on Elixir community channels like this, the comments/feedback are more likely to be genuine