Exploring Elixir E2: How fast is Elixir 1.5?

Yeah, responding to yourself is lame .. but here I am anyways

Code repository that goes with this series can be found here: GitHub - aseigo/exploring-elixir: Contains code examples used in the Exploring Elixir screencast series: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFKQ85T69sYhifDHF7dnPgw · GitHub

Note that it is not a “coherent application” but rather all the snippets and bits I use in the episodes (including some that get left on the cutting room floor … ), but someone on reddit asked so there it is.

Also, the Extras episode noting a number of highlight features from Elixir 1.5 / OTP 20 is up as well:

Thanks for posting those videos and the interesting insights

My pleasure; I’m just glad if someone else finds them interesting / useful as well! Cheers ..

Thanks for your work! Rather useful. Still, i think, video format is not optimal for such payload, I’d prefer plain old article/blog post - way easier to navigate

Noooooooooo… screencasts are awesome @thousandsofthem

@aseigo and what he’s doing reminds me very much of Ryan Bates and Railscasts

Best of both worlds would be to have show notes or asciicasts (like Railscasts did).

I actually agree that blog posts are better for archival and more “serious” reading. Thankfully there are a number of those for Elixir already … though perhaps I will also do one of those one day (I used to blog nearly daily for other projects I participated in) …

BUT … videos have a few benefits: they show visually what is happening and how it can come together in more or less real-time, something that is hard to replicate with a blog. Videos are also something to sit and consume almost casually, and as such they compliment and augment the written word with something a bit more like entertainment. There’s also something to be said about the “touch” of the human voice .. for some people it’s more enjoyable ..

So I think we need ALL of these forms of media to communicate the great things we love in Elixir and the BEAM ecosystem …

BTW .. The next episode will be back to “live coding” again, which is also really hard to replicate in blog entry ..

I’d prefer static/dynamic articles as well, video is not something I can watch until I get home, at which home life often blocks me from doing so. ^.^;

Video snippets on a page that have no audio are good though (I can ‘kind of’ watch videos at work, just no speakers thus no sound).

There’s one more optimisation that is missing from the videos - record pattern matching (or rather pattern matching on tuples where the first element is an atom) was also optimised. This also applies to ok and error tuples, so should be also visible in Elixir. I’m not sure how big of an improvement it is, though.

Ooooh, I missed that one entirely! Maybe I’ll sneak in a “one more thing ..” in Episode 3 if it does turn out to be visible … neat.

Two other sets of improvements, Calendar enhancements and child_spec/1, will be subjects of future episodes on their own, so I skipped over them in these ones. ..

Oh man, you guys are really making me seriously consider picking up the blogging again and doing a companion blog to the videos .. well, we’ll seeeeee!