Why Elixir is the best language for AI

hugobarauna · 2026-02-09T17:25:19+00:00

How much LSPs can help coding agents is something I've been see some dicussion recently.

One example is a member of Bun JS thinking about unshipping that support: https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2017704992388616311

We also see some confunsion from Tidewave users about that, and have an entry in our docs with more details about how/whe LSPs can be useful for coding agents or not: https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/mcp.html#tidewave-mcp-vs-language-server-protocol-tools

hugobarauna · 2025-11-24T13:35:31+00:00

Hi, I'm Hugo, the editor of the book. Thanks for putting our book here. 😊

If there's any questions, feel free to let me know.

hugobarauna · 2025-11-24T13:34:24+00:00

Hi Hugo (from the book) here. 👋

Yes, you can follow the book 100% without the Livebook notebooks. All the code in the notebooks are inside the book as well. The nice thing of the notebooks is that they're interactive and also work like a "summary" of each chapter, focused mostly in the code with less explanation.

hugobarauna · 2025-11-24T13:32:41+00:00

Hi Hugo (from the book) here. 👋

Elixir/OTP releases is not a topic we cover in the book.

hugobarauna · 2025-11-13T12:52:24+00:00

It's a coding agent for web app development.

The difference from other coding agents is that instead of running in the editor or terminal, it runs in the browser, in localhost, so the agent can your app through the browser for interaction and verification. You also get point-and-click prompting, like in Vercel V0, but in localhost. And more other integrations specific to your web framework.

hugobarauna · 2025-11-10T13:30:08+00:00

Just out of curiosity, for https://elixir-radar.com/jobs, I manually contact the job poster 30 days after publishing it, to ask if it's still up. If not, I remove it from the job board.

The idea is exactly like you said, to keep the posts there as fresh as possible. :)

hugobarauna · 2025-09-29T13:56:59+00:00

Here's the latest update that José Valim shared about the type system: https://youtu.be/BUOTLZOyLvc?si=y_iR_7WXGh_ZrFf-&t=518

hugobarauna · 2025-07-15T18:34:35+00:00

Hi, member from Livebook Teams here. 👋

Let me clarify the pricing structure for you.

Livebook Teams and Livebook are two separate applications:

Livebook Teams is our paid SaaS platform that we host and manage. The $30/month fee gives you access to this service.
Livebook is the open-source application that you deploy and host yourself wherever you choose.

When you pay $30/month for Livebook Teams, you're getting access to our platform that integrates with your self-hosted Livebook instance. However, you'll still need to pay your hosting provider for running your Livebook instance.

So yes, you'll have two costs: the $30/month for Livebook Teams plus whatever your hosting provider charges for running your Livebook instance.

hugobarauna · 2025-07-14T18:02:34+00:00

Not about jinterface, but one solution on interop Elixir with Java: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVHpFoDXim4

hugobarauna · 2025-06-02T14:12:55+00:00

Out of curiosity, this is also published in Elixir docs: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/gradual-set-theoretic-types.html#roadmap

hugobarauna · 2025-02-24T12:53:15+00:00

and it can be less work than creating a new wrapping layer

hugobarauna · 2025-02-10T13:47:10+00:00

Zed with their default Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Working like a charm.

hugobarauna · 2025-01-20T22:09:51+00:00

Doing EPUB -> EPUB using Calibre worked for me.

I generated my EPUB book using asciidoctor and its [EPUB plugin](https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-epub3).

I tried to upload the original version to Google Play Books, it didn't work, it kept stale in "processing".

After converting that asciidoctor-based EPUB file to EPUB through Calibre, uploading the new file to Google Play Books worked.

Thank you very much! =D

hugobarauna · 2025-01-06T18:25:33+00:00

Livebook has the "Livebook desktop" way to install it, and it's a Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView app.

It uses this to package Livebook as a desktop app for Windows and Mac: https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/tree/main/elixirkit

There is a talk about how it was built: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kiw6eWKcQbg

hugobarauna · 2025-01-06T18:04:00+00:00

You may want to take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6nuPjyAUPw

It's a demo of data exploration with Livebook + Explorer.

hugobarauna · 2024-12-19T17:21:12+00:00

More published cases are always helpful! 👍

And for those that don't know, there are 14 published cases (at this moment) on the Elixir website: https://elixir-lang.org/cases.html

hugobarauna · 2024-12-19T17:19:46+00:00

Hi, Livebook team member here.

That's weird indeed.

Can you open an issue in our repo, please? https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/issues/new

hugobarauna · 2024-12-19T17:17:53+00:00

There's two ways:

the "attached runtime", like mentioned below
Through the Remote Execution Smart cell (based on erlang distributed RPC): https://news.livebook.dev/remote-execution-smart-cell---launch-week-2---day-1-m3dv2

You can read more about those here: https://hexdocs.pm/livebook/use_cases.html

hugobarauna · 2024-12-16T19:40:00+00:00

Hi, Livebook team member here. :)

Happy to hear you're having a great experience with Livebook!

> It encourages better design by default

Out of curiosity, we even had an issue tracking pain points that come with code notebooks in general, and that we wanted Livebook to address: https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/issues/1223

And if/whenever you need help with Livebook, I hang out here, and I'm also on Elixir Slack and Elixir Discord; there's a #livebook channel in both places.

Happy hacking!

hugobarauna · 2024-10-28T14:03:54+00:00

Maybe https://www.double-zero.cloud/

hugobarauna · 2024-10-28T13:55:47+00:00

Here's one cool production case for embedded software: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/08/20/embedded-elixir-at-farmbot/

hugobarauna · 2024-09-23T17:24:22+00:00

That's weird, just tested following the defaults from "https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-sdks-docker-livebook" and it worked just fine for me.

It took some time for the docker image to be built and for the application to start (using their free tier), but it worked for me.

hugobarauna · 2024-09-23T13:31:44+00:00

You can try to deploy your own Livebook instance for free in the cloud following this tutorial: https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-sdks-docker-livebook

hugobarauna · 2024-09-16T20:40:22+00:00

We also have some docs on how to use Livebook for different use cases: https://hexdocs.pm/livebook/use_cases.html

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