Company
Date Published
Author
Daniel Berman
Word count
1025
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Snyk has announced support for Elixir, a functional, concurrent, and general-purpose programming language, allowing developers to easily find, prioritize, and fix vulnerabilities in their Elixir packages. With Snyk's CLI, Elixir developers can test and monitor their Mix/Hex projects manually or as part of their CI process, ensuring known vulnerabilities are caught early on and before code is deployed into production. This support is available across all Snyk plans for free. The Elixir ecosystem poses a security risk due to open source packages containing known vulnerabilities, but the number of known vulnerabilities remains relatively low compared to other ecosystems. Using Snyk enables developers to surface these vulnerabilities early on and quickly apply fixes. The Snyk CLI allows users to find and fix vulnerabilities in their dependencies manually or as part of their CI workflow. With its support for umbrella projects and dependency trees, Snyk provides a comprehensive solution for Elixir development security.