Best Erlang Podcasts (2026)

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283: Erlang Turns 27 and React at Risk 43:23

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19d ago43:23

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News includes celebrating Erlang's 27th birthday as open source, results from the Elixir Hub 2025 survey showing strong community growth with over 1000 participants, a fun Govee Lights control library, a new data_migration package for LiveDashboard, Tidewave.ai's impressive accessibility testing and fixing capabilities showing 2x better performance…

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The State of NATO 51:28

2d ago51:28

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Join Ivo Daalder in a special edition of World Review as he engages with NATO's Deputy Secretary General, Radmila Šekerinska, at the Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School. This episode explores NATO's strategic responses to contemporary challenges, including hybrid threats and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The discussion highlights NATO's adapta…

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285: From Popcorn to Robots 31:47

5d ago31:47

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News includes Software Mansion pushing the boundaries of Popcorn by running LiveView locally in the browser using WebAssembly, the Programming Nerves book by Alex Koutmos and Hugo Baraúna launching in beta, a new minimalist Stripe integration library called PinStripe, Beam Bots announced for resilient robotics on the BEAM, Saša Jurić’s thought-prov…

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284: ‘Tis the Season for a Type System 24:49

12d ago24:49

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News includes José Valim announcing that Elixir v1.20 is well underway with full-type inference possibly landing before the end of the year, Gleam v1.14.0-rc1 with fault tolerant type inference and language server improvements, mjml_eex v0.13.0 for creating beautiful email templates, Dashbit's new nimble_zta library for zero trust authentication ex…

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Escalation in Venezuela, Ukraine Endgame, Fighting Undermines Peace President 46:33

17d ago46:33

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In this episode of World Review, Ivo Daalder is joined by Nahal Toosi, Alex Ward, and Giles Whittell to discuss the latest developments in global politics. The panel examines the U.S. blockade on Venezuelan oil and its implications for the Maduro regime. They also explore the ongoing negotiations with Ukraine and the potential for a ceasefire by Ch…

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The World Reacts to Trump’s New National Security Strategy 50:36

23d ago50:36

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In this episode of World Review, host Ivo Daalder is joined by Anna Sauerbrey, Ken Moriyasu, and Anton LaGuardia to dissect the latest U.S. national security strategy. The panel discusses the document's unexpected brevity and its significant implications for international relations. Key topics include the U.S.'s shifting stance towards Europe, the …

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Episode 97: Gleam! A Chat with Peter Saxton 48:21

24d ago48:21

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In this episode of Beam Radio, Lars and Andrew welcome Peter Saxton, a key figure in the Gleam programming language community. They discuss Peter's journey into the BEAM ecosystem, the philosophy and features of Gleam, and how it compares to other languages like Elm. Check out the Gleam Gatherining - 21 February 2026 - Bristol, UK https://gleamgath…

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282: Type Systems and View Transitions 34:41

26d ago34:41

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News includes cutting-edge research from José Valim and Guillaume Duboc on the data structures powering Elixir's type system that made v1.19 both stronger and faster than v1.18, Phoenix LiveView v1.1.18 with new conveniences including view transition API support, LiveDebugger's biggest release yet with improved assigns inspection and resource monit…

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Putin Says No, Boat Strike in the Caribbean, Trump Berates Europe 55:54

30d ago55:54

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Join Ivo Daalder in this episode of World Review as he navigates the intricate web of global politics with esteemed journalists Carla Anne Robbins, Steven Erlanger, and Matt Kaminski. Delve into the ongoing Ukraine conflict, where diplomatic efforts seem to stall amidst geopolitical tensions. Explore the controversial U.S. military actions in the C…

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281: Planning for the Unexpected 28:54

1M ago28:54

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News includes Erlang OTP 28.2 release with improvements across the runtime and standard library, a significant update to the Elixir "whois" library for querying domain registration information, Tidewave Web adding Figma support for designer integration, a new KQL (Kibana Query Language) parser library from TvLabs, the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation no…

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280: Dark Matter Developers 42:08

1M ago42:08

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News includes Elixir 1.19.3 point release with enhanced regular expression support in config files, Tidewave Web adding support for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex agents, Hologram's JavaScript porting initiative seeking community help to complete their browser runtime, a new pg_large_objects library for streaming large binary data with Postgres, the …

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Will Trump's 28-Point Plan End the War in Ukraine? 50:41

1M ago50:41

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A highly contentious 28-point US peace plan, reportedly drafted by President Trump's Peace Envoy Steve Witkoff and a Russian envoy, was presented to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, aiming to end the war by giving Russia significant concessions while offering Ukraine a security guarantee and the US financial benefits. Immediately following t…

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Welcome to the World Review — From Our New Home at the Belfer Center 1:46

2M ago1:46

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Ivo Daalder announces World Review's new home at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Every Friday, Ivo and leading journalists and analysts cut through the noise to explain the global stories shaping our world — clearly, honestly, and without jargon. If you’re looking for sharper insight and deeper context,…

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279: Hot Code Upgrades and Hotter AI Takes 46:36

2M ago46:36

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News includes Chris McCord's FlyDeploy for zero-downtime hot code upgrades on Fly.io, the Elixir GRPC library update with interactive Livebook documentation, ErrorTracker v0.7.0 with LiveView 1.0 support, a new AI-powered terminal emulator called exterm_ai, Horde joining a new GitHub organization focused on distributed systems, SmartLogic's case st…

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278: WAL-ing Through Database Changes 31:43

2M ago31:43

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News includes the Curiosum Elixir survey closing soon, ReqLLM reaching 1.0 with standardized LLM API support across multiple providers, Isaac Yonemoto's Codicil library bringing semantic code understanding to AI assistants through MCP, José Valim teasing Tidewave Web expansion to support Django, Rails, Next.js and other popular frameworks, phoenix_…

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World Review Live: Conflict in Africa; the Far Right in Europe 31:11

2M ago31:11

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Thank you Brenda Elthon, Jay Lapidus, Richard Burger, Monte McMurchy, Richard McFarlane, and many others for tuning into my live video with Anna Sauerbrey and Bobby Ghosh! Join me for my next World Review on Friday, November 14, in the app. Get full access to America Abroad at ivodaalder.substack.com/subscribe…

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277: Searching Across the Hexiverse 26:09

2M ago26:09

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News includes a powerful new HexDocs search engine built in Gleam that lets you search across all your project dependencies with mix hex.search, Software Mansion's interactive Elixir Language Tour that runs in the browser via WebASM, Paulo Valente's breakthrough getting Stable Diffusion running on Mac GPUs through EMLX, lessons learned from the AWS…

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World Review Live: Trump visits Asia, meets Xi 32:27

2M ago32:27

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Thank you Brenda Elthon, Jay Lapidus, Thomas Wright, [email protected], Paul k, and many others for tuning into my live video with Gideon Rachman and Ken Moriyasu! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to America Abroad at ivodaalder.substack.com/subscribeBy Ivo Daalder, Ken Moriyasu, and Gideon Rachman

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Episode 96: Take the Elixir Survey and Other Topics with Lars Wikman and Michał Buszkiewicz of Curiosum 58:29

2M ago58:29

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This episode of Beam Radio features a conversation between Lars Wikman and Michał Buszkiewicz, discussing the adoption and impact of the Elixir programming language. They explore the Elixir Hub initiative, Elixir survey results, and the language's role in the tech community. Take the Survey: https://elixir-survey.typeform.com/2025-edition Curiosum:…

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276: Elixir v1.19 Types and Speed 42:18

2M ago42:18

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News includes the major release of Elixir v1.19 with enhanced type checking, broader type inference, and up to 4x faster compilation for large projects, plus the first OpenChain certification bringing more transparency to the BEAM ecosystem. We also cover the Mishka Chelekom Phoenix LiveView component library update for Tailwind 4 support, visual i…

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World Review Live—Trump-Xi to Meet; US Sanctions Russia 31:10

2M ago31:10

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I was thrilled to be joined by Jane Perlez, host of the Face-Off podcast on US-China relations and long-time reporter of the New York Times, and Anton LaGuardia, diplomatic editor of The Economist. Get full access to America Abroad at ivodaalder.substack.com/subscribeBy and Jane Perlez, Anton La Guardia, Ivo Daalder

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275: From Slop to Success? 29:02

3M ago29:02

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News includes the release of Elixir v1.19.0-rc.2 with impressive deps compile times and optimized set-theoretic type checking, a timeline update on typed structs arriving by next year, the new "mix help app:phoenix" command for building AI Agent context, gRPC library v0.11.0 with client load balancing, ReqCassette for recording test requests, Germa…

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WORLD REVIEW LIVE: Missiles for Ukraine? French Government survives no-confidence vote, with Karen DeYoung and Steven Erlanger 32:35

3M ago32:35

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Thank you Elise Labott, Brenda Elthon, Peter Sukowski, Bob Fleischman, [email protected], and many others for tuning into my live video with Steven Erlanger and Karen DeYoung! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to America Abroad at ivodaalder.substack.com/subscribe…

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274: Protocols, Permissions, and Performance 31:32

3M ago31:32

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News includes the release of Elixir 1.19.0-rc.1 with OTP 28.1+ compatibility and impressive 2.3x faster dependency compilation, JetBrains adopting the open Agent Client Protocol for AI coding agents, an update on LiveView Native's uncertain future, major improvements to the MDex Markdown library including streaming support and Quill delta conversio…

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273: Does the Language Really Matter? 39:29

3M ago39:29

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272: Process Vaults and Quantum Crypto 30:57

3M ago30:57

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News includes the release of Vault, a lightweight library for process-scoped global data storage that uses the Process Dictionary for immutable context sharing, OTP 28.1 with quantum-resistant ML-DSA cryptographic support and enhanced DNS resolver capabilities, Tidewave Teams launching and Tidewave's new TODO support, AshTypescript for automatic Ty…

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271: Testing, Searching, and Funding 17:29

3M ago17:29

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News includes an interactive test runner called mix_test_interactive that brings Jest-style testing to ExUnit, TrieHard - a blazing fast Rust-powered Trie implementation for search and autocomplete functionality, ReqLLM - a new unified library for LLM interactions built on Req, Hologram v0.6.0 bringing production-ready features to the pure Elixir f…

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Episode 95: Erik Stenman and The BEAM Book 55:12

4M ago55:12

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Erik Stenman joins the BeamRadio pod to discuss The BEAM Book (you can read it for free!). Erik started programming in 1980 and has a rich history in tech and shares his journey with the BEAM. Follow Erik: @erik_stenman and @HappiHacking on X.com https://www.happihacking.com/ https://stenmans.org/happi_blog/ We want to connect with you! Twitter: @B…

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270: Kickstarting the Future of Rebar 23:21

4M ago23:21

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News includes a Kickstarter campaign to fund Rebar4 development with the goal of making it an official part of the OTP build system, Tidewave Web adding React support and OpenRouter integration for accessing multiple LLM models, Phoenix 1.8.1 release fixing AGENTS.md generation issues, ElixirConf US 2025 videos being slowly released on YouTube incl…

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269: Elixir with LLMs and Expert Arrives 29:43

4M ago29:43

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News includes the release of Expert, the new official Elixir LSP that's already supported by Zed editor, Tidewave Web getting its first major update with editor integration and notifications, Paulo Valente's handoff library v0.2.0 for distributed graph execution across BEAM nodes, LiveDebugger v0.4.0 with new inspect mode and improved features, fas…

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268: Got your Popcorn here! 41:50

4M ago41:50

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News includes a new library called Lotus and LotusWeb that provides a safe, read-only environment for running SQL analytics queries with organized storage for saved queries. After the news, we had an interview with Mateusz Front about the Popcorn project, which enables Elixir to run in WebAssembly (WASM) in the browser courtesy of AtomVM. We dig in…

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Enter the Elixirverse: Season 14 Wrap-Up 33:34

4M ago33:34

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Today, the Elixir Wizards wrap up Season 14 “Enter the Elixirverse.” Dan, Charles, and Sundi look back at some common themes: Elixir plays well with others, bridges easily to access languages and tools, and remains a powerful technology for data flow, concurrency, and developer experience. We revisit the popular topics of the year, from types and t…