25: Improving developer experience with Marlus Saraiva

We talk with Marlus Saraiva about three big projects he is a part of. All of which are around improving the developer experience in Elixir! We start with Broadway, a library that makes working with GenStage even easier. We learn about his project Surface that brings a more react-like component model to LiveView. We then talk about his work on ElixirSense and ElixirLS which are used by editors to give code completion and documentation help. He covers where he thinks web development went wrong and what he thinks Elixir can do to improve it. We also cover where things may go with Surface and ElixirLS in the future, and much more! Please note that this interview with Marlus was recorded before our interview with Chris McCord. When Marlus mentions that they were waiting for a soon-to-come LiveView release, that is the 0.15.0 release. The Surface 0.1.0 is the release he was talking about. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/25 Elixir Community News https://claudio-ortolina.org/posts/tips-for-finch-and-telemetry/ – More of Claudio's work around creating custom LiveDashboard pages https://github.com/doawoo/teex – Teex - Use Elixir like a system scripting language https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler/ – Zigler library highlight https://ziglang.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM_tO8hQgKA – Zigler video showing catching memory leaks http://blog.erlang.org/the-road-to-the-jit/ – Erlang Blog post on the history and future of Erlang and performance. https://github.com/msaraiva/surface/blob/v0.1.1/CHANGELOG.md – Discussed Surface with Chris McCord in last week’s episode. They had a new 0.1.0 release https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/24/discord-is-close-to-closing-a-round-that-would-value-the-company-at-up-to-7b/ – Discord closing a funding round https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/10/08/real-time-communication-at-scale-with-elixir-at-discord/ – Discord Elixir case study https://dashbit.co/blog/tests-with-warnings-as-errors – Dashbit blog post detailing making warnings in tests fail a CI build Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://github.com/dashbitco/broadway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPu-P97-cbE – ElixirConf 2019 presentation https://youtu.be/tPu-P97-cbE?t=1935 – Portion of Broadway showing live updating of worker tree https://github.com/msaraiva/surface https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir_sense https://elixirforum.com/t/introducing-elixirls-the-elixir-language-server/5857/103 https://github.com/beam-telemetry/telemetry https://github.com/dashbitco/broadway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPu-P97-cbE http://surface-demo.msaraiva.io/ https://storybook.js.org/ https://github.com/lukaszsamson https://github.com/axelson https://github.com/elixir-lsp – The Elixir Language Server Protocol Github organization https://elixirforum.com/ Guest Information https://twitter.com/MarlusSaraiva – on Twitter https://github.com/msaraiva – on Github Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward