288: 15 Years of Elixir and Full Type Inference

News includes Elixir's 15th anniversary celebrated with an early v1.20 release candidate featuring type inference for all constructs, Chris McCord's launch of Sprites.dev for hardware-isolated execution environments at Fly.io, MDEx v0.11.0 with a new website and Phoenix Components support, Ex_cldr 3.0 announced as Localize with runtime-only configuration, Gust workflow engine as an Airflow alternative built in Elixir, LiveDebugger v0.5.0 with Dead LiveViews debugging, LiveVue v1.0 stable release bringing Vue.js integration to Phoenix LiveView, Goatmire conference returning in 2026, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/288 Elixir Community News https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer. January 9th, 2026 marked 15 years since Elixir's first commit https://x.com/josevalim/status/2009702354527088669 – José Valim's tweet celebrating 15 years of Elixir https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/01/09/type-inference-of-all-and-next-15/ – Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months - announcement blog post for Elixir v1.20 RC with type inference for all constructs https://x.com/josevalim/status/2010660222906597572 – José Valim's post about community feedback on the type system inference release candidate - it's faster, finds more bugs and dead code https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/2009688571037339922 – Chris McCord's announcement of Sprites.dev https://sprites.dev/ – Sprites.dev - hardware-isolated execution environments for arbitrary code launched at Fly.io https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1qb0scq/mdex_fast_and_extensible_markdown/ – Reddit discussion of MDEx v0.11.0 update https://mdelixir.dev/ – New MDEx websi