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
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()
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