ElixirConf US 2018 Opening Keynote - The Next Five Years – José Valim

[axelson]

ElixirConf US 2018 Opening Keynote - The Next Five Years – José Valim (@josevalim)

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Hey everyone! I hope everyone enjoyed ElixirConf! I know that I did. In order to facilitate and continue the discussion (especially since YouTube comments are disabled) we are going to post a new video discussion thread every day (edit: changing to 3 video discussion threads a day) so that we as the community can give some attention to each of the conference talks. However, since the keynotes will definitely get plenty of discussion we will post all of those at once. If you don’t want to miss a…

[blatyo]

For people interested in the type system stuff, José linked to this on the mailing list: https://gist.github.com/josevalim/e65266f0db95e2c645e2217bc96ee780

[LostKobrakai]

GitHub - josefs/Gradualizer: A Gradual type system for Erlang

This was mentioned as well.

[AstonJ]

A great keynote from José!

What I took from it and “the next five years” is that Elixir has reached a level of maturity, and where it has met many (if not all) of its original design goals …hence won’t be changing too much in the near future.

I think this definitely instills confidence, and will, I’m sure, push many who have been on the fence about trying it to give it a go

The bit about the type system made me

[sweeneydavidj]

Yeah, very nice talk!

I love the whole philosophy of having a small core - and great that it is getting quite mature now.

[stefanchrobot]

My two favourite quotes:

There is no formatting that you could possibly apply to this code that is going to make this code actually readable.

The next five years are in your hands