Elixir immediately gets access to all of these features in the VM. Over the next coming months, there may be the creation of more Elixir-friendly access wrappers to the features.

However, there is the need to make sure Elixir can work with R19 in the first place, but Jose Valim and co. has usually been quite good at getting that working.

It looks like the erlang debugger will now be able to step through elixir code: http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/04/debugging-technique...