Thinking Elixir Podcast 284: ‘Tis the Season for a Type System

News includes José Valim announcing that Elixir v1.20 is well underway with full-type inference possibly landing before the end of the year, Gleam v1.14.0-rc1 with fault tolerant type inference and language server improvements, mjml_eex v0.13.0 for creating beautiful email templates, Dashbit's new nimble_zta library for zero trust authentication extracted from Livebook, Björn Gustavsson's ElixirConf EU talk on BEAM history and internals with insights on a potential BEAM v2 runtime 5-10 years away, GoatMire conference videos being published, and more!

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José Valim announces Elixir v1.20 is well underway in active development – https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/2...
Changelog showing complete typing of maps keys in Elixir v1.20 – https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir...
Elixir releases page - current latest version is 1.19.4 – https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir...
Set theory reference for understanding Elixir's type system approach – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory
Set-theoretic topology reference – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-the...
Gleam v1.14.0-rc1 announcement – https://bsky.app/profile/gleam.run/po...
Gleam v1.14.0-rc1 changelog with updates including fault tolerant type inference and language server improvements – https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/b...
mjml_eex v0.13.0 release announcement – https://bsky.app/profile/akoutmos.bsk...
mjml_eex library for formatting emails using MJML and EEx – https://github.com/akoutmos/mjml_eex
mjml_eex changelog showing upgrade to MJML 5.3 and comment support – https://github.com/akoutmos/mjml_eex/...
MJML website for responsive email templates – https://mjml.io/
MJML GitHub repository – https://github.com/mjmlio/mjml
MJML app for building email templates – https://mjmlio.github.io/mjml-app/
Dashbit blog post announcing nimble_zta for zero trust authentication – https://dashbit.co/blog/zero-trust-fo...
nimble_zta library with zero trust strategies for CloudFlare, Google Cloud Platform IAP, and Tailscale – https://github.com/dashbitco/nimble_zta
BEAM virtual machine Wikipedia reference – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(E...)
My BEAM History - Björn Gustavsson ElixirConf EU 2025 talk covering BEAM internals –    • My BEAM History - Björn Gustavsson | Elix...  
GoatMire conference website with published videos – https://goatmire.bold.video/
GoatMire YouTube channel –    / @goatmireinternational  
Blog post with tips on detecting duplicate records using Ecto queries – https://www.yellowduck.be/posts/detec...
Credit for Christmas themed intro music – https://pixabay.com/music/christmas-c...

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