What DockYard Engineers Are Looking Forward to in 2025

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Liza Sokol

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Here at DockYard, we’ve celebrated the past year and some great launches, and now we’re looking forward to the rest of 2025 and all of the exciting things happening in the engineering and product development spaces.

From continued Beacon CMS developments to all things creating with LiveView Native, there’s certainly a lot to be excited about. There’s LiveView assigns sharing/adopting LVs, more reliable testing, Elixir community leadership from the DockYard team, and more. Read on for what we’re specifically amped about over the next 12 months.

Sergio Arbeo, Staff Senior Engineer

“In Elixir: faster compilation times, more types!, having something like mix test.interactive built-in, having an official forum where questions can be publicly discussed and be used for paid work, better documentation. In Phoenix LiveView: more reliable testing, an E2E testing library that is actually usable and reliable, a way to debug why some markup changes are being sent when data changes, stop the attitude against JS, incorporate a way to send messages between components, add an API to include custom JS commands.”

Mike Binns, Principal Software Engineer

“Having been in Java prior to Elixir, the Type System is currently top of my list as far as what I’m personally excited about. On an ecosystem level, I am looking forward to increased adoption of Elixir in 2025 as all the various incubating technologies reach maturity, including Nx, LiveView Native, and Beacon.”

Stefanie Holbrook, Senior Software Engineer

“A lot of cool work has been happening. I’ve been really impressed with Livebook, Nx, and Flame and I’m excited to see what’s next.”

Paulo Valente, Senior Software Engineer

“I’m looking forward to the type system improvements in Elixir as a language. In the library space, Nx has some promising features in the works, and I’m looking forward to LiveView Native developments.”

Leandro Pereira, Senior Software Engineer

“I’m looking forward to improvements to the Elixir Language Server from the official team, release and adoption of the Type System by the community where it makes more sense as libraries, and more focus on integrating Elixir with other ecosystem through Rustler and Zigler.”

Alexandre Moreira Xavier, Senior Software Engineer

“I’m looking forward to seeing how the BeaconCMS library evolves in 2025. The 0.1 release in 2024 was a big milestone, and its roadmap looks very promising. I’m also excited to continue contributing to it, as it is an open-source project.”

Happy New Year from all of us and cheers to more Elixir projects and code sprints.

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