Elixir v1.16 released

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Elixir v1.16 has just been released. 🎉

The Elixir team continues improving the developer experience via tooling, documentation, and precise feedback, while keeping the language stable and compatible.

The notable improvements in this release are the addition of compiler diagnostics and extensive improvements to our docs in the forms of guides, anti-patterns, diagrams and more.

Code snippets in diagnostics

Elixir v1.15 introduced a new compiler diagnostic format and the ability to print multiple error diagnostics per compilation (in addition to multiple warnings).

With Elixir v1.16, we also include code snippets in exceptions and diagnostics raised by the compiler, including ANSI coloring on supported terminals. For example, a syntax error now includes a pointer to where the error happened:

** (SyntaxE...

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