300: Celebrating 300 with José Valim
From Thinking Elixir Podcast by ThinkingElixir.com
April 21, 2026 · 1h 24m
About this episode
In this milestone episode, the hosts celebrate 300 episodes with news updates and an in-depth interview with José Valim discussing Elixir's advancements.
It's Episode 300 — a milestone just under 6 years in the making! To celebrate, we kick things off with a fun song, then dive into the news: the Localize library v0.15.0 brings locale-aware formatting and Unicode CLDR data to Elixir without any compile-time code generation, a new library called Reach builds program dependence graphs for Elixir and Erlang to help coding agents and static analysis tools understand your codebase, Tidewave gets exciting updates including voice input with click-to-add context and the ability to install it as a PWA, the ErlEF has opened its 2026 board elections with voting running May 8-15, and more! Then we sit down with José Valim for an in-depth interview covering Elixir v1.20, the latest progress on the set-theoretic type system, the story behind Tidewave, and how AI is — and isn't — changing development on Elixir itself. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/300 Elixir Community News https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer. https://github.com/elixir-localize/localize – The Localize library…
People in this episode
Guest: José Valim
Topics covered
- Elixir
- software development
- AI in development
- program dependence graphs
- locale-aware formatting
- interview
Keywords
- Elixir
- José Valim
- Tidewave
- Localize
- ErlEF
- AI
- software development
Sponsors
Paraxial.io
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: ErlEF
Products: Localize library v0.15.0, Tidewave
Books & works: Elixir v1.20
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