José Valim, creator of Elixir and form Rails core contributor

[00:01:29] José tells us his background and what he does, and Seth explains how he found himself on a Ruby podcast with the Elixir creator.[00:03:47] We find out how José got started in Ruby and progress into being a Rails core team member.[00:07:40] We hear how José went from being a Rails core team member to creating Elixir, and he tells us about an influential paper called, “The Free Lunch Is Over.”[00:24:28] José talks about the story of Elixir, the story around putting it into the world, the features that have grown in it, and the adoption. [00:26:46] We learn more about if José considers himself a Web Developer before he got into writing Elixir.[00:32:34] Jose shares how long it took him to get from starting Elixir to where he felt confident in it with people running in production.[00:34:54] Where does Phoenix, a popular web framework for Elixir, come into play?[00:41:11] José shares a story about LiveView.[00:51:16] José goes in depth about distributed systems and the solution that most people would do and the really cool solution. [01:03:13] Jason brings up something José said which was, “Using Elixir and Phoenix, it’s just a great developer experience,” and he expands more on this explaining the good cases outside of concurrency for using Elixir.[01:09:33] Chris wonders if there are any rough edges of Elixir that José still wants to put some polish on.[01:15:42] We hear about Laravel and how they are a great example of trying to be all encompassing.[01:16:09] José shares his thoughts on supporting authentication in a web application.[01:23:24] We learn what José is working on that’s new and exciting with Elixir, and he also tells us about Nerves, FarmBot, Broadway, and Numerical Elixir.[01:31:32] Find out where you can follow José on the internet. Panelists:Jason CharnesChris OliverAndrew MasonGuest:José ValimSponsor:HoneybadgerLinks:Ruby Radar NewsletterRuby Radar TwitterJosé Valim TwitterJosé Valim LinkedInElixirThe Free Lunch is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency is Software LivebookMoz Developer BlogPhoenix FrameworkFarmBotNervesBroadwayNumerical Elixir (Nx)  Chris Oliver X/TwitterAndrew Mason X/TwitterJason Charnes X/Twitter