Kodsnack 722 - Not here for the syntax, with Koushik Dasika

Fredrik talks to Koushik Dasika about working with Elixir.

From discovery to first deployments.

Via appreciation of a big mess that gets the job done just keeps on working.

And on to teaching Elixir to others.

Since we met at Goatmire last year, and Goatmire is running when this episode is released, we of course talk about some conference highlights, and about meetups and conferences able to ignite that exciting feeling that there is a lot to discover and learn in the world.

Oh, and what was that thing about seals?

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Links

• Goatmire
• Koushik
• Automatiq
• Automattic - the Wordpress company
• Ottomatic does not seem to be the name of any software company
• Elixir
• Polyglot
• Elixirconf US
• Elixirconf EU
• Global interpreter lock
• Go
• Sabre
• NYC Elixir meetup
• Chris Bell - runs Knock
• Websockets
• Phoenix
• Phoenix presence
• CRUD
• BEAM
• DSL
• Mix - build tool for Elixir
• Express
• REPL
• IEX - Elixir's interactive shell
• V8
• Kubernetes
• Adding typing to Elixir
• Digitalocean
• Support the podcast on Ko-fi!
• Dan Janowski
• Erlang ecosystem foundation
• Liveview
• Bittorrent
• Scheme
• The little schemer
• Prolog
• Erlang
• Valgrind
• GDB
• CSP - "a formal language for describing patterns of interaction in concurrent systems"
• Channels in Go
• Actors
• Alan Kay
• José - creator of Elixir
• Gotamire 2025 videos - the puppet show was unfortunately not recorded

Titles

• An episode a year in the making
• Polyglot environments
• Sneak Elixir into production
• My experimental phase is a language
• Perfect for Elixir
• A two-man band
• A polyglot environment
• We're making it look easy
• We're trying to sell the runtime
• Cheated out of a REPL
• (We're) Not here for the syntax
• Your supervisor is Kubernetes
• For the love of the game
• Scheme + Prolog = Erlang
• I'm here to get stuff done
• Simple layers
• The seals win