Elixir-lang.org has a new design

Love the new site!

Minor typo in the Erlang card:

“Elixir also excels at IoT, distributed systems, and everything the Erlang is renowned for”

should probably be “everything the Erlang VM is known for” or “everything Erlang is known for.”

José Valim & team have made such an incredible language and ecosystem. thank you for all the faithful work, especially the run up to 1.20 over this past year

There’s no obvious way to switch to normal (aka “light”) mode. Dark mode is very difficult for some people (me included) to read.

If you must default to dark mode that’s your choice but I’d love to see a light mode toggle somewhere prominent.

No mention of AI and LLM in the front page. Life is good.

Elixir is such an elegant language.

I'm hoping to find a reason to use it soon.

I think this version is an improvement over the old one! In particular how it highlights the packages in the ecosystem better.

This is great! Now waiting for the forum UI update too! :)

Hoping Elixir continues to thrive. It is such a great language (and such a great language for AI coding too!)

Elixir is great.

OT: I wish more funding & development effort went into BEAM itself on making it more performant.

Note: I’m not talking concurrency. I’m talking pure raw performance.

Seems like it’s been a one person show for over a decade on making it faster.

I followed the links to docs and getting started, but it says page not found.

The URL: https://elixir.hexdocs.pm/getting-started.html

On the first syntax example: there’s something funny to me about using three pipe operator and four different functions to turn “hello world” into “Hello World”.

Looks pretty good, I like that they are highlighting the potential uses for elixir.

To me, it seems one of the killer use cases for Elixir (/Erlang) is its distributed cluster capability. Does anyone have experience with that or case reports to share? I've used Elixir quite a bit professionally, but mostly as just a "nicer Rails" with horizontally scalable but otherwise independent Phoenix apps in your traditional Kubernetes setup, which seems to me to kind of missing out on its main purpose.

Looks great! There are some style quirks with cutoff elements in Firefox 152.0.6: https://imgur.com/a/OtnESi7

Nice! The showcase of companies is really nice

Site doesn't work for me (older Firefox). Looks like there's no CSS and some Javascript error (probably makes it bail out loading the CSS?)

I prefer https://jank-lang.org/ new re-design, and the approach of a more step-wise refinement.

I appreciate Elixir but the problem is the job market/talent pool is tiny compared to other existing languages.

If you buy into the Elixir stack then you now have constraint you could've avoided entirely by avoiding it.

Also for devs there seems to be no premium offered for this talent pool scarcity. With LLMs I think language-specialists are redundant in a large scheme of things. ex) at one of my current remote jobs, I shipped an entire telecom infrastructure with barely knowing Elixir and we brought on contractors to audit the code and they found no issues.

Why does it have like 0.1s animations?

I guess elixir is a nice lang for the niche of erlang. But its dynamic (the "type system" is really meh at best) its not suited for real world use.

If i go full dynamic, why not use pure erlang instead?

Ugh, it looks like all the other LLM generated language webpages. It's formulaic at this point. I'd hoped a language like Elixir would be able to hire some people to do it.

José Valim & team have made such an incredible language and ecosystem. thank you for all the faithful work, especially the run up to 1.20 over this past year

Looks pretty good, I like that they are highlighting the potential uses for elixir.

Looks great! There are some style quirks with cutoff elements in Firefox 152.0.6: https://imgur.com/a/OtnESi7

Nice! The showcase of companies is really nice

There’s no obvious way to switch to normal (aka “light”) mode. Dark mode is very difficult for some people (me included) to read.

If you must default to dark mode that’s your choice but I’d love to see a light mode toggle somewhere prominent.

Yeah. You'll notice that there's a mix of light and dark. Some segments are light-on-dark, then it switches to dark-on-light. It appears to me like a "design trend" that's at odds with accessibility. https://www.apple.com does this too.

No mention of AI and LLM in the front page. Life is good.

They have a Machine Learning section on the front page. Just have to scroll down a bit, under the "Use Elixir for" section.

But I bet the landing page was made with AI assistance.

Elixir is such an elegant language.

I'm hoping to find a reason to use it soon.

its been fun building a multiagent personal assistant.

(wip, no guarantees, this is the engine i use)

https://github.com/ityonemo/ce_ce

Such a delight to use and the core team seems to always make the right decision.

This is great! Now waiting for the forum UI update too! :)

Hoping Elixir continues to thrive. It is such a great language (and such a great language for AI coding too!)

In fact it came out as the absolute best in a comparison by Tencent (1). See table 4. It’s more than a year old though.

1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09101

Elixir is great.

OT: I wish more funding & development effort went into BEAM itself on making it more performant.

Note: I’m not talking concurrency. I’m talking pure raw performance.

Seems like it’s been a one person show for over a decade on making it faster.

There are multiple people working on the JIT within the last 5-6 years. The WhatsApp folks also contribute meaningfully.

I suspect once the Erlang/OTP team squeezes all performance in the JIT, they will look into optimizing across modules, which will probably open up many new possibilities, but it requires rethinking some runtime primitives.

It’s pretty hard to make things like math faster for real world use cases in a bytecode interpreter.

On the first syntax example: there’s something funny to me about using three pipe operator and four different functions to turn “hello world” into “Hello World”.

That's a good point. I will come up with something less contrived/more practical! Thanks!

It's been a while, but I used to work at WhatsApp and we used Erlang distribution heavily. I understand the clusters have gotten really huge since I left.

It's super handy. There's no security barrier between nodes. It's a headache if your network is unreliable.

For a chat app, messaging someone becomes a series of steps:

a) look up if they're online (send a message to the presence database service)

b) if you got a process id back, that's the process connected to the user, so send it the message. The process could be on the same machine or not, but the sending api is the same. This is the special part: few other environments make arbitrary messaging between processes/threads/tasks/whathaveyou so pervasive.

c) if you don't get a process id back, the user is offline; send the message to the offline database.

Also interested in hearing about this! I built an elixir k8s control plane recently and kept expecting to reach for it but it never really made sense when it was controlling golang daemonsets.

My usecase is less independent though, that control plane is orchestrating like Lambda/fly.io style workloads on top of firecracker: https://jomcgi.dev/ember

I've worked a little bit with distributed Elixir using `Horde.DynamicSupervisor` on Kubernetes. Apparently there's other options like 'swarm' and DynamicSupervisor [1]. It'd be great for clear analysis of the benefits these kinds of abstractions bring vs non-BEAM approaches.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZmDEUeHeVI

Elixir/Erlang works very well in a semi-embedded environment where you need a higher level command and control component that behaves in a deterministic way and is pretty robust.

I was involved, years ago, in using Erlang on these devices: https://www.icare-world.com/us/product/icare-eidon/

It was a lot of fun and there were some very interesting challenges for everyone involved.

Site doesn't work for me (older Firefox). Looks like there's no CSS and some Javascript error (probably makes it bail out loading the CSS?)

It also does not load if Javascript is blocked.

I prefer https://jank-lang.org/ new re-design, and the approach of a more step-wise refinement.

How is this language related to Elixir? Or are you just commenting that another language has a website?

Why does it have like 0.1s animations?

Can you clarify which ones? We will be glad to improve them (or feel free to send a PR).