Update from the Elixir Core Team - 2017

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1. Update from the Elixir team elixir-lang.org

2. Elixir v1.0 Sep 2014 > 180 contributors

3. Elixir v1.4 Jan 2017 > 520 contributors

4. Release every 6 months v1.5 → mid 2017 v1.6 →

   beg 2018 ... → ...

5. IMPROVEMENTS IN v1.5

6. UTF-8 atoms :""

7. Contributed back to OTP

8. test "こんにちは世界" do assert :こんにちは世界 end

9. josé = "wat" josé #=> "wat" UTF-8 VARIABLES http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2012-October/069820.html

10. Exception.blame/3

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14. GenStage + Flow

15. A B C stages of computation with backpressure GenStage

16. parallel computations on collections Flow File.stream!("path/to/some/file") |> Flow.from_enumerable() |> Flow.flat_map(&String.split(&1,

    " ")) |> Flow.partition() |> Flow.reduce(fn -> %{} end, fn word, acc -> Map.update(acc, word, 1, &(&1 + 1)) end) |> Enum.to_list()
17. None

18. http://bit.ly/genstage

19. Many small improvements CHANGELOG.md

20. FUTURE

21. Deprecate tuple calls

22. {List, []}.first() List.first({List, []})

23. Dynamic supervisor

24. simple_one_for_one confusing/mixed API documentation

25. simple_one_for_one confusing/mixed API documentation DynamicSupervisor

26. RESEARCH PROJECTS

27. Data streams + Property testing

28. test "starts_with?/2" do assert for s1 <- Data.string(), s2 <-

    Data.string() do String.starts_with?(s1 <> s2, s1) end end

29. Google Summer of Code

30. ExFormat def foo ( a, b ) do a+ b

    end def foo(a, b) do a + b end

31. Language Server Protocol http://langserver.org

32. GenHTTP Functional, flexible HTTP client

33. github.com/elixir-lang/elixir

34. elixir-lang.org