Thinking Elixir 304: Types, CVEs, and Hot Reloads
Episode 304 of Thinking Elixir. News includes a major milestone for Elixir’s set-theoretic types as inference of all language constructs is completed and merged with Elixir v1.20.0-rc.5 hot on its heels, OTP 29.0 drops as a major release with secure-by-default SSH, post-quantum SSL key exchange, Erlang doctests, and more, a wave of high-severity CVEs hits the Elixir and Phoenix stack prompting the EEF CNA to take on a larger work load as AI-driven vulnerability reports surge, string processing in Elixir gets a serious speed boost via SWAR (SIMD Within A Register) optimizations with 1.5–5x improvements across Base and String operations, and a handy tip for enabling state-preserving hot reloads in Phoenix LiveView with just a small dev.exs config tweak, and more!