Acknowledgments

Though this cover prominently highlights two authors like a couple of shining LEDs, the real story behind the story is one of a much greater team. In these short paragraphs, we’ll try to thank those who made this book possible.

First, we’d like to thank the wonderful staff at The Pragmatic Bookshelf for all of their help and support. The staff has always provided unwavering support to Elixir. We offer special thanks to our friend and editor Jackie Carter who tirelessly works to get more out of us. She’s our friend and our ally. Thanks for being there.

José Valim, you have created something lasting and remarkable. Your creation of Elixir and stewardship of the community has had an incalculable impact on all of our careers, and we are all profoundly grateful for what you do to continue to push the language, ecosystem, and infrastructure forward. Your insightful leadership with LiveBook had a direct impact on this book.

We also thank Jonatan Kłosko for your creation of LiveBook. It gave us a story to tell even when supply problems were crushing the rest of this book.

Of course, we thank our reviewers Denver Smith, Kim Shrier, Masatoshi Nishiguchi, Mike Waud, and Jason Johnson. Reviewing a book with hardware has an extra level of commitment that most books don’t. Thanks for building out the project and being patient with the words that were sometimes too expert or too basic. You helped form a bridge between this team of authors.

Thanks go also to the Nerves Core Team of Jon Carstens, Connor Rigby, and Masatoshi Nishiguchi. They have shown incredible flexibility and judgement. Nerves wouldn’t be possible without a dependable core group of maintainers.

Next, we thank the Nerves community. Thanks for being a welcoming and fun place to hang out and experiment with hardware using Elixir.

Finally, we thank the Elixir community and our readers. Authors write to share. Without someone to read what we have to say, the words are empty.