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 pglargeobjects library for streaming large binary data with Postgres, the experimental playwright_ex library for browser automation, and the latest TIOBE Index showing C# nearly displacing Java while Elixir ranks at #38, and more!
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https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.19.3 (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.19.3?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Elixir 1.19.3 point release with support for /E modifier in config file regular expressions and mix help for standard library apps
https://tidewave.ai/blog/claude-code-codex (https://tidewave.ai/blog/claude-code-codex?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Tidewave Web now supports Claude Code and OpenAI Codex agents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxzPZ0PGd2s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxzPZ0PGd2s?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Video showing how to configure Claude Code and Codex agents in Tidewave Web
https://nitter.net/bart_blast/status/1989862380776370450?s=12&t=Xn6DY9Qzc5nGLdqEskRjvQ (https://nitter.net/bart_blast/status/1989862380776370450?s=12&t=Xn6DY9Qzc5nGLdqEskRjvQ?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Hologram announcement about JavaScript porting request
https://hologram.page/blog/elixir-to-javascript-porting-initiative (https://hologram.page/blog/elixir-to-javascript-porting-initiative?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Hologram's call for help porting Erlang functions to JavaScript for browser runtime
https://hologram.page/reference/client-runtime/erlang (https://hologram.page/reference/client-runtime/erlang?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Progress page tracking Erlang to JavaScript porting efforts for Hologram
https://github.com/frerich/pglargeobjects (https://github.com/frerich/pg_large_objects?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – New pglargeobjects library for streaming large binary data to/from Postgres using the Large Object API
https://elixirforum.com/t/playwright-ex-playwright-client-for-browser-automation/73323 (https://elixirforum.com/t/playwright-ex-playwright-client-for-browser-automation/73323?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – New playwright_ex library for browser automation with Chromium, Firefox, Safari and Edge
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ (https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – TIOBE Index updated language rankings with C# nearly displacing Java and Elixir at 38
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_definition/#instances (https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_definition/#instances?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – TIOBE Index methodology explaining how language popularity is calculated
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Reference to Microsoft Blazor as context for C# growth
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