====== History of Elixir, Erlang, BEAM ======


===== 2022 =====

  * 10 Years of Elixir, by Gustavo Oliveira and Adolfo Neto, with many guests https://youtu.be/xqT7vjw-3bg
    * Webpage: http://bit.ly/10YearsOfElixir 
    * See also the playlist with the testimonials https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGj5ZUU3H99SESNis6ea1o6lBDlQ5gn0a 
  * Key takeaways from ElixirConf EU 2022 (includes section on "Celebrating the 10 years of Elixir – José Valim"), Rich Cooper, Ulisses Almeida  https://duffel.com/blog/lessons-from-elixirconf-eu-2022
  * The 10 year #Elixir timeline that by Carlo Gilmar https://twitter.com/ElixirConfEU/status/1541798501214048256

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  * Five part series of Thinking Elixir podcast episodes with José Valim:
    * Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 1 https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/82
    * Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 2 https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/87
    * Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 3 https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/91
    * Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 4 https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/96
    * 10 Years of Elixir with José Valim https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/100
 
 


 


===== 2020 =====

  * Game of Phones: History of Erlang and Elixir. Article by Jonn Mostovoy. https://serokell.io/blog/history-of-erlang-and-elixir

===== 2019 =====

  * EMx 050: Elixir Origin Story with José Valim https://devchat.tv/elixir-mix/emx-050-elixir-origin-story-with-jose-valim/


===== 2018 =====

  * Why did José Valim create Elixir?, Adolfo Neto https://medium.com/@adolfont/why-did-jos%C3%A9-valim-create-elixir-a6e210b7f2a1

=====  2017 ===== 

  * José Valim lives in Poland because his wife is Polish, says his mother Wayne Valim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8WfaLiSUQI. She used to work in tech in the 90s https://www.linkedin.com/in/waynierevalim/

===== 2016 =====

  * Mar 2016 -  Elixir Daze, the first regional Elixir conference, was held https://twitter.com/johnny_rugger/status/1541830588373405701 
    * Videos from the Elixir Daze 2016 conference https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7tQUdRKcya6djUzNtQQYiMdP4_juhHH


===== 2015 =====

  * An Interview with Elixir Creator José Valim https://www.sitepoint.com/an-interview-with-elixir-creator-jose-valim/
  * What Elixir is about - José Valim - Erlang User Conference 2015 https://youtu.be/QXcedVc2LQM
  * Elxiir series of the Grok podcast (in Brazilian Portuguese) http://www.grokpodcast.com.br/series/elixir/
  * June 2015 - 1st Elixir Fountain podcast episode with José Valim was released  https://twitter.com/johnny_rugger/status/1541830588373405701


===== 2014 =====

  * Jan 2014 - #MyElixirStatus started to find & share topics from around the Elixir community https://twitter.com/johnny_rugger/status/1541830588373405701
    * 19/Jan/2014 - First tweet with the #MyElixirStatus hashtag https://twitter.com/elixirfountain/status/424946849183588352?s=20&t=WJ9riboBSvWI6fmTQXbqmw
      * As pointed out here https://twitter.com/adolfont/status/1029359858674483200

===== 2013 =====

  * Dec 2013 - First Elixir Fountain newsletter was sent https://twitter.com/johnny_rugger/status/1541830588373405701
  * Elixir Sips  from Josh Adams started as a video tutorial series https://twitter.com/johnny_rugger/status/1541835518387683328

===== 2012 =====
  * "Elixir - A modern approach to programming for the Erlang VM" by Jose Valim - EFL Kraków 2012 - Jose Valim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4K3R43LKXY
    * Slides https://pt.slideshare.net/plataformatec/writing-your-own-programming-language-to-understand-ruby-better-euruko-2011
  * An Evening at Erlang Factory: José Valim https://youtu.be/Vmln9LvGbdo
  * First mentions of "Elixir community" on Twitter https://twitter.com/adolfont/status/1029361414371266560 
  * The oldest archived version of Elixir's website is from March 2nd, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120302164419/http://elixir-lang.org/


===== 2011 =====

  * Erlang Series of the Grok podcast with José Valim in Brazilian Portuguese http://www.grokpodcast.com.br/series/erlang/
    * This was the basis for [[https://medium.com/@adolfont/why-did-jos%C3%A9-valim-create-elixir-a6e210b7f2a1|Why did José Valim create Elixir?]] (2.6K views up to Sep. 1, 2020)

  * Euruko 2011 - Keynote: Writing your own programming language to understand Ruby better by José Valim https://youtu.be/7rakLz2p50Q

  * Some blog posts about Erlang that José Valim read in 2011 about OTP https://web.archive.org/web/20120126174028/http://spawnlink.com/articles/tag/otp/index.html
    * Using Supervisors to Keep ErlyBank Afloat
    * Introduction to the Open Telecom Platform
    * Rules of Hot Code Swapping
    * Compendium of Beginner Erlang Resources




===== 2009 =====

  * Eleven years old praise for @FrancescoC and  @thompson_si's book Erlang Programming https://twitter.com/adolfont/status/1300905743932100615




====== Threads ======

https://twitter.com/adolfont/status/1300879316444762112

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, before showing us a piece of Erlang code with 5+ lines containing a module with a function, <a href="https://twitter.com/redrapids?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@redrapids</a> presented:<br>- all features of the Erlang VM<br>- an interview with Joe Armstrong<br>- vars, types, pattern matching, bit matching<br>12 pages <a href="https://t.co/M2pnjhSw4G">pic.twitter.com/M2pnjhSw4G</a></p>&mdash; Adolfo Neto (@adolfont) <a href="https://twitter.com/adolfont/status/1300879316444762112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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====== Blog posts ======


  * [[https://medium.com/@adolfont/the-elixir-programming-language-timeline-3befe50f2505|The Elixir Programming Language Timeline]]