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Issue #492

This week in Elixir

150,000 Lines of Vibe Coded Elixir: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
150,000 lines of production Elixir, written entirely by AI. John shows what worked and what didn't.

Hologram Awarded EEF Stipend for Development Milestones
Hologram‘s tagline is „Build rich, interactive UIs entirely in Elixir“ and they just got a stipend from the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation 🥳

Struct Updates Now Require Pattern Matching in Elixir 1.19
Zarar describes why you might see warnings about struct updates after upgrading to Elixir 1.19.

Even more from around the Elixir community

Thinking Elixir: A NextJS Escape and 2025 in Review Podcast

Who is Doing the Thinking? - Bruce Tate Video

Funx: Adding the Optic Traversal Blog post

Guide to Parsing Financial Protocols and the FEBRABAN Standard with Elixir Binaries Blog post

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