Recently I found an optimization I wanted to make in some string processing code - it was making multiple passes that could be replaced with a single pass using pattern matching and IO Lists. Here is the commit that escapes XML entities in a string where we replace multiple regular expressions with a single recursive pass. There are two questions - does the code produce the same results, and is it faster?

This is a comparison of running Rich Hickey’s Clojure Ant Simulation (2009) on both the JVM and the BEAM virtual machines. The original Clojure source written in 2008 has been ported to Clojerl line by line with only two differences:

If you need to determine the type of a local file in Elixir, you can use Elixir libmagic bindings library. libmagic is the library that powers the file command.

This is a minimal happy-path benchmark of the ACE HTTP 2 server. It is a measurement of simple HTTP HEAD and GET requests with varying payload size - no other HTTP headers are used or tested.

Photo from Code BEAM STO with Elixir colour palette:

Photos from Elixir Conf.EU: Arjan Scherpenisse discussing parsers with José Valim.

We have released the Gnuplot library that allows you to generate server side graphs and plots from Elixir and the Gnuplot utility. It has been tested with Ubuntu, Centos and Mac OS X but not yet with Microsoft Windows.

My first visit to Lambda Days - so happy to see a lot of interest in type theory. Ji Liu @arkh4m : Kraków dragon:

Daniel P. Friedman has released The Little Typer - a book introducing dependent types. Paul Cadman has formed a London based type-driven development group where we work through the book.

How are the users of the new product going to navigate the app? UX brainstorming session with Jesper Funk

Joe Armstrong presenting at Code Mesh LDN 2018

Huge 3d printed Elixir logo at Elixir Conf.EU 2018 ! Elixir language creator José Valim

Clever Bunny have released Elixir Flashcards - a great way to learn and master Elixir. They can be used individually or in a team game. I am happy to provide some of the product photos used in the marketing:

Coding Night challenge #7 at Zuehle Engineering Write an AI bot that plays Asteroids! It must open a Websocket connection to the server, receive the game state, make a decision, send it’s action.

Flying to Elixir Conf.EU to learn about this new lanaguage called Elixir!