44: Elixir Data Types with Sasha Fonseca

We talk with Sasha Fonseca about Elixir's data types behind the scenes. We learn about binary leaks, discuss memory usage, performance considerations, what boxed values are and much more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/44 Elixir Community News https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1380124787318665218 – Sean Moriarity released a new library built on NX called Axon https://dockyard.com/blog/2021/04/08/up-and-running-nx – Sean's guest blog writing and has a post on the Dockyard blog about getting started with Nx. https://elixirforum.com/t/introducing-elixirls-the-elixir-language-server/5857/125 – ElixirLS 0.7.0 released https://github.com/erlang-ls/erlang_ls/releases/tag/0.14.0 – Erlang LS 0.14.0 released https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elixir-testing-b32ac0604b99 – Sasa Juric concluded his "Maintainable Elixir" blog series with a post on Testing https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/038-maintainable-elixir-with-sasa-juric/ – Previous interview with Sasa Juric https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1379834109560819718 – Lumen project seeking help to implement ETS support and requested people contribute https://twitter.com/sprsmpl/status/1381810172474064899 – Hex.pm diffs now allow you to share links to specific lines https://github.com/thoughtbot/bamboo – Bamboo v2.1.0 released adding interceptors https://github.com/josevalim/nested-data-structure-traversal – Jose Valim requests developers from all programming languages to contribute solutions to a problem in different programming languages. Great just to look over. https://dashbit.co/blog/announcing-livebook – LiveBook Announced https://youtu.be/RKvqc-UEe34 – Demonstration and explanation video https://github.com/elixir-nx/livebook – Livebook github project Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/elixir-memory-structure/ https://www.talkdesk.com/ https://elm-lang.org/ http://erlang.org/doc/man/mnesia.html http://erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/erl_ext_dist.html https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/issues/616 https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/ https://github.com/kvakvs/beam-wisdoms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QUVpYXuR80 https://www.erlang-in-anger.com/ http://ferd.github.io/recon/recon.html https://github.com/devonestes/fast-elixir https://thinkingelixir.com/available-courses/ – Free Pattern Matching course covers working with these data types Guest Information https://twitter.com/SashaSFM – on Twitter https://github.com/sashaafm/ – on Github https://foofoobar.me – Blog Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward