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Re:Elixir 1.5 released by nichochar on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @10:46AM (#14848081)
There's quite a few nifty little things in this one.

I'm not sure I like the child_spec change, personally I like the supervision mode to be explicit when calling children.

I do like the developer tools, the breakpoint support, the UTF8 for atoms (which I'm realizing we may want in our DSL since we're converting user input strings to atoms), and the @impl that allows to explicitly declare which functions are there for an interface.

Overall, it's amazing to be part of the elixir community, rarely have I seen such emulation, positivity, speed of growth, and effectiveness achieved so fast for a language. Congrats @josevalim for bring the power of BEAM through a wonderful syntax!

Re:Elixir 1.5 released by _untra_ on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @11:00AM (#14848191)
> which I'm realizing we may want in our DSL since we're converting user input strings to atoms

careful there. Theres a hard limit on the number of atoms that can be created in an environment, and serializing user input to atoms can get dangerous

Re:Elixir 1.5 released by velzevur on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @11:43AM (#14848603)
also not being garbage collected...
Re:Elixir 1.5 released by latch on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:16PM (#14848941)