Elixir v1.12.0 released!

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Elixir v1.12.0 has been released.

Official announcement: Elixir v1.12 released - The Elixir programming language

Elixir v1.12 is out with improvements to scripting, tighter Erlang/OTP 24 integration, stepped ranges, and dozen of new functions across the standard library. Overall this is a small release, which continues our tradition of bringing Elixir developers quality of life improvements every 6 months.

Elixir v1.12 requires Erlang/OTP 22+. We also recommend running mix local.rebar after installation to up…

Link: Release v1.12.0 · elixir-lang/elixir · GitHub

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These changes will be very useful for my Advent of Code repository. I recall missing extended GCD for some problems requiring Chinese Remainder Function. then is a gem. I’m not sure, is Tuple.{sum,product} part of thus release or an earlier one?

Finally the quality of life improvements are nice, I can finally paste pipeline functions, though I will still have to press the up key multiple times, unlike say, iPhone. I will rejoice when multi-line history gets enabled.

I love all Elixir releases.