294: Compile Times, Language Servers, and Python, Oh My!
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294: Compile Times, Language Servers, and Python, Oh My!

30:57 Mar 3, 2026
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News includes the long-awaited Expert LSP releasing its first release candidate — the unified Elixir Language Server merging Lexical and Next LS — with monorepo support and early adopter feedback already glowing, José Valim shares exciting Elixir v1.20 compile time improvements bringing up to 20% faster compilation on OTP 29 and up to 5x faster with a new interpreted mode, Livebook Desktop makes the move to Tauri bringing Linux support and plans for a reusable Tauri+Elixir package, a new erlang-python library arrives for running Python ML/AI code from Elixir with true parallelism, Nx v0.11 lands with sharding support and MPS backend improvements, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/294 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. https://x.com/expert_lsp/status/2025624737737539876 – Announcement tweet for Expert LSP v0.1.0-rc.1, the unified Elixir Language Server combining Lexical and Next LS. https://x.com/mitchhanberg/status/2025625898322469367 – Mitch Hanberg's tweet about the Expert LSP v0.1.0-rc.1 release candidate. https://expert-lsp.org/the-first-release-candidate/ – Blog post accompanying the Expert LSP v0.1.0-rc.1 release, covering stability goals and the near-term roadmap. https://github.com/elixir-lang/expert – GitHub repository for Expert, the unified Elixir Language Server. Includes features like compiler diagnostics, completions, go-to-definition, monorepo support, and more. https://x.com/tylerayoung/status/2025659771789905966 – Tyler Young shares his team's experience using Expert at Jump, calling it the best Elixir LSP experience he's had. https://x.com/benoitc/status/2024059742096687482 – Benoît Chesneau announces the erlang-python package, enabling Python ML/AI integration with Erlang/Elixir concurrency.
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