The Evolution of a Language

I gave roughly the same talk at ElixirConf Mexico in Mexico City the week before this one.

Transcript

1. The LANGUAGE LANGUAGE EVOLUTION EVOLUTION of a The of a Photo by Yousef Espanioly on Unsplash
2. @whatyouhide
8. weedmaps.com/careers
9. TIMELINE
10. Erlang 1988 Ruby 1993 Programming Ruby 2001 Rails 2004 Elixir 2011 Clojure 2007 7 Languages in 7 Weeks 2010
11. 2011 Elixir Jun 2013 Ecto ElixirConf Jul 2014 Phoenix Jan 2014 Elixir 1.0 Sep 2014 Programming Elixir Oct 2014
12. LANGUAGE EVOLUTION
13. team COMMUNITY ecosystem
14. team • coordination • quality assurance • maintenance
15. Community • experimentation • ecosystem • usage
16. has Elixir been growing?
17. CONTRIBUTORS new contributors 0 55 110 165 220 year 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
18. Elixir conferences
19. ElixirConf 2014
20. ElixirConf 2015 ElixirConf EU ElixirConf MX
21. 2016 ElixirConf EU ElixirDaze EMPEX ElixirConf Elixir.LDN ElixirConf MX
22. 2017 LoneStar ElixirConf ElixirDaze Erlang & Elixir Factory ElixirConf EMPEX Elixir With Love Elixir.LDN ElixirConf EU ElixirConf MX
23. 2018 LoneStar ElixirConf ElixirDaze EMPEX LA ElixirConf EMPEX Elixir Brazil Code Elixir ElixirConf EU Ruby & Elixir Taiwan Gig City Elixir The Big Elixir ElixirConf MX
24. Hex new Hex users 0 450 900 1350 1800 year 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 (users)
25. Hex new Hex users 0 600 1200 1800 2400 year 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 (packages)
26. Hex new Hex users 0 500000 1000000 1500000 2000000 year 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 (downloads)
27. things we got better at
28. port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port port
29. Ruby Erlang otp?
30. Erlang Ruby
31. Lisp Clojure Erlang Ruby
32. more attention tow ards OTP
33. |>
34. [1, [2], 3] |> List.flatten()
 |> Enum.map(fn x -> x * 2 end)
35. |>
36. significant events
37. the importance of ecto
38. shows a new w a y to do things
39. data + pure code
40. v alidates metaprogramming in elixir
41. shows power of metaprogramming (will slightl y regret later)
42. phoenix
43. hooks users on Elixir through web channels
44. nerves
45. Elixir is not just for the web?!
46. GROWTH factors (key)
47. docs
51. tooling/ux/developer happiness
52. xref IEx breakpoints syntax highlighting in IEx formatter ExUnit diff
54. community ❤
55. What's next
56. what will the team focus on?
57. maintenance research + + developer happiness
59. / community ecosystem
60. elixir gets picked up by big companies (hopefully)
61. Ecosystem will get larger and better
62. less core contributors more ecosystem contributors
63. commits commits 0 700 1400 2100 2800 year 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
64. CONTRIBUTORS new contributors 0 55 110 165 220 year 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
65. less elixir contributors more beam contributors
66. elixir erlang
67. commits to OTP by Elixir team 0 10 20 30 40 year 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Erlang CONTRIBUTORS
68. Benchee.run/2 benchee:run/2
69. will Elixir SURVIVE?
71. not much relying on the TEAM + language
72. Contributors Core team José
73. with
74. contribute
75. start discussions
77. thanks @whatyouhide elixir-lang.org