The Elixir Programming Language

Ina previous article, we discussed how we optimized intersections in Elixir set-theoretic types to improve performance.In a nutshell, lazy BDDs allow us to represent set-theoretic operations at any de…

Today, a parallel compiler just landed in Elixir main. The goal of the parallel compiler is to compile files in parallel, automatically detecting dependencies between files. In this blog post, we are …

We have finally released Elixir v0.6.0! This release includes a build tool called Mix, support for Erlang typespecs, many improvements to IEx and improved IO, File and Macro support. What’s new When w…

Elixir v0.7.1 was released this weekend to celebrate the end of a two months journey traveling around Europe, United States and Brazil talking about and exposing Elixir to new developers. This is a mi…

On the last 9th January, we celebrated two years since Elixir’s first commit and to celebrate this occasion we have prepared a big release. Elixir v0.8 is out, with documentation, optimizations, bug f…

The past week we have released Elixir v0.8.2. It contains many bug fixes and better support for Erlang R16, including the new built-in functions insert_elem/3 and delete_elem/2. We have also added ext…

While Programming Elixir was being announced, we have been working on Elixir v0.9.0 which is finally out. This release contains new features, important performance optimizations and bug fixes. Elixir …

During the last year, we have spoken at many conferences spreading the word about Elixir. We usually started with introducing the Erlang VM, then went on to talk about Elixir goals, saving some time a…

As you may have heard in the upcoming 0.12.0 release Elixir’s enumerators gained some new features. In this blog post I’ll explain what’s new, what it enables and how it works. For those of you who us…

Hello folks! Elixir v0.13.0 has been released. It contains changes that will effectively shape how developers will write Elixir code from now on, making it an important milestone towards v1.0! On this…