231: Pretty Error and OTP Raw Mode
News includes Dave Lucia's PR improving Elixir errors, OTP 28's "raw mode", Johanna Larsson's Elixir event site, DockYard's LiveView Native contracts, and more!
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News includes Dave Lucia's PR making Elixir's protocol errors more readable, OTP 28 introducing a "raw mode" for immediate CLI input processing, Saša Jurić's "Against the Grain" talk on YouTube about a bespoke Kafka client, Johanna Larsson's new site listing Elixir events, DockYard's official acceptance of native application contracts highlighting the readiness of their LiveView Native library, and Brian Cardarella's teased Motion.dev wrapper enhancing animations in LiveView, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/231
Elixir Community News
- https://bsky.app/profile/davelucia.com/post/3lbhh5ghevc2n – Dave Lucia shared his recent PR merged into Elixir, improving protocol error messages.
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/14003 – Dave's PR titled "Make protocol errors pretty" addresses unreadable struct errors in Elixir.
- Dave encourages others to contribute to open-source by fixing issues like ugly error messages.
- https://github.com/spencerolson/chat – With OTP 28's new "raw mode" feature, interactive CLI programs can process stdin inputs immediately.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6c4iqsl2us – Saša Jurić's talk "Against the Grain" from CodeBeam America about developing a bespoke Kafka client is available on YouTube.
- Johanna Larsson launched a mini site listing Elixir events.
- https://bsky.app/profile/jola.dev/post/3lbs2cae4ec2x – Announcement of the new mini site for Elixir events.
- https://elixirevents.net/ – A resource for upcoming Elixir events.
- https://erlef.org/events/ – ERLEF’s calendar for Elixir-related events.
- https://x.com/bcardarella/status/1861169450805850122 – DockYard is officially accepting native application contracts, showcasing their LiveView Native library.
- https://dockyard.com/services/mobile – DockYard's services page for mobile application contracts.
- https://github.com/liveview-native/live_view_native – The LiveView Native open-source library created by DockYard.
- https://x.com/bcardarella/status/1858254238964412855 – Brian Cardarella teases a new Motion.dev wrapper for LiveView enhancing animation support.
- https://motion.dev/ – Motion.dev is an animation library for JavaScript and React.
- https://hex.pm/packages/motion – The "motion" package on Hex providing the library.
- https://github.com/dockyard/motion – The GitHub repository for the Motion library.
- Brian explains the significance of animation integration in LiveView for mobile experiences.
- https://x.com/ElixirConfEU/status/1861012571865698426 – ElixirConf EU announces José Valim and Chris McCord as keynote speakers.
- https://www.elixirconf.eu/ – Information about ElixirConf EU 2025 with a call for talks open.
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