I have seen a podcast and now most recently a video (lonestar 2019) stating that Elixir is done: [Lonestar ElixirConf 2019 - The River - Bruce Tate] What does it mean? Does it mean the core concepts are now completed for v1.0 ? Does it mean the Elixir team will now go on a (well dese…

[image] Fl4m3Ph03n1x: I have this idea that the community has to pick the direction where Elixir is going next, but everyone in a community wants different things. Some want types, some want more Nerves, others want more processes and others something more Haskell like. That’s exactly right, …

The idea is that Elixir has all the building blocks necessary to build libraries on top of it. Think of it as stable in the LTS sense or the Clojure sense rather than abandoned. To turn the question around, what features do you think are still missing that cannot be built on top of everything that a…

To be brief… You say “done”, which makes Elixir sound like a project in and of itself, rather than a tool to complete other projects. Maybe it is? I don’t know. Many people have worked exceptionally hard to create a language, ecosystem of libraries/frameworks and a community that together is an outs…

It means that language is ready and it’s extendable enough and there will be no version 2.0. It will still get bug fixes and things like that. This means that you as developer don’t always have to learn new feature of the language and old code will be readable for years to come, it’s a good thing. T…

[image] jdumont: … makes Elixir sound like a project in and of itself, rather than a tool to complete other projects. In a hundred years, Elixir likely won’t exist. The process in which future applications are going to be generated shall challenge our imagination. Web dies. Keyboard/mouse/scr…

I saw in another post they said the language is mostly done and now they’re going to focus on adoption and spreading the words to companies and devs. This basically is really good news since Erlang is quite a small language too. Coming from Scala having such a huge amount of syntax and keywords. Er…

That was entirely my point. Elixir in that context doens’t matter, only what you can do with it.

I was in the room for this talk and I don’t think he meant it like you’re interpreting it. He didn’t mean done as in finished, complete, no more work being done on it. He meant stable. In that talk, Bruce emphasized the 1 breaking change since 2014 I believe. That was a call to the enterprise, to th…

He is referring to this talk https://youtu.be/suOzNeMJXl0 at 54 minutes starts The next five years

I haven’t watched Bruce’s talk, but José explained it quite clearly in that ElixirConf talk

I saw both talks in person. I take it to mean “there are no breaking features (in the semantic versioning sense) in the plans for Elixir.” Feature enhancements will continue, but things are pretty stable, so build upon this foundation. I worry it is misconstrued.