cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/3061318

Djot is a markdown alternative, created by John MacFarlane, creator of Pandoc and spec author of CommonMark. It aims to fix many of the little issues Markdown has, and does a pretty good job of it, imo.

I'm just learning for fun, but I'm curious what others are liking/not liking about Elixir for projects (big or small!).

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I hereby officially announce the Elixir type system effort is transitioning from research into development: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-research-dev/

A huge thank you to Fresha and Starfish for sponsoring this new stage. They are also hiring:

• https://fresha.com/careers/openings?department=engineering
• https://starfish.team/jobs

ExUnit is wonderful, and the functional paradigms that underpin Elixir let us write extremely complex tests in a fraction of the code that would be needed in OOP testing frameworks like RSpec.

But it's not all wine and roses. Tests can quickly accrue tons of boilerplate and repetition.

Using some Elixir features, you can cut down on these, and make tests even nicer to write.

I'm excited for this release, especially the compile-time speed improvements!

Also a shoutout to "@behaviour declarations no longer add compile-time dependencies", that'll make it easier to use @behavior now.

Found here

I just found https://genserver.social/, a Pleroma instance for Elixir/Erlang folks. José Valim and other prominent Elixirists are there.