Elixir v1.14 released: improved debugging, partition supervisor, and more

I'm very excited to see the new work on debugging. I'd always been a sort of simple "printf" type debugger, but the recent John Carmack interview about his process has had me rethinking things.

With all the investment the Elixir folks have been putting in Livebook lately, I wonder if that's a natural avenue for exploration. Livebook is super cool, and I use it as a scratchpad for trying things out, but I feel like it could have some pretty powerful debugging functionality as well.

edit: silly me! I got too excited and jumped the gun. Scrolling down a bit more now, the article actually does talk about that some.

I am way more excited for dbg than I should be. It looks great. PartitionSupervisor's neat, too, ~~~though it only really seems to replace a handful of lines of code. It's probably more advanced than I'm imagining, though~~~ I missed the partition keying. Definitely nice to have a standardized model for this in the standard library.

I'll be putting this on the proper place as well, but the Windows install instructions don't produce a working install. Whenever I try to do anything with Elixir at all (including ask for the version) it immediately crashes.

Luckily WSL generally works, though the Ubuntu package repositories haven't been updated yet, which isn't surprising with the holiday weekend. Mac works great.

Is there any significance that it wasn’t José making this announcement?