elixir-ls

A frontend-independent IDE "smartness" server for Elixir. Implements the "Language Server Protocol" standard and provides debugger support via the "Debug Adapter Protocol"

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A frontend-independent IDE "smartness" server for Elixir. Implements the "Language Server Protocol" standard and provides debugger support via the "Debug Adapter Protocol"

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pselbert·Oct 6, 2020

The IDE type tooling is getting better all the time thanks to Elixir-LS. There was a 0.6 release a couple of days ago with a ton of improvements [0]. Better auto-completion triggers and Ecto completion come to mind as huge quality of life improvements. 0: https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/blob/master/CHANGELO...

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user34234·Jul 21, 2020

Yes, in fact we have ourselves published a few open source packages out of the need we had to build them. The latest incarnation of this problem, was when we had to validate RUT codes (a tax code with a checksum we use here in Chile). Options for Python [1], options for Node [2], options for elixir [3] (don't mind to click, it's a list with nothing to do with RUTs or modulo11 validations). So we had to implement it ourselves. Looking for information we found example implementations [4], where as you can see you have example implementations even for Asterisk Dialplans (!!) but no mention of Elixir. [1] https://pypi.org/search/?q=rut [2] https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=rut [3] https://hex.pm/packages?search=rut&sort=recent_downloads [4] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Implementaciones_para_al... There are many more examples. Of course yo

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u get libraries for the "standard" stuff, it is when you get into the detailes, and that happens when you are already too deep into your project, that you realise all the missing pieces. Also, what code editor do you use? we've tried everything, and seems the best option is you grow a beard and go emacs/vim. The VSCode plugins hog your laptop and are really inconsistent, incomplete and sluggish [1] [2]. [1] https://github.com/JakeBecker/elixir-ls/issues/54 [2] https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/issues/96 Of course there is no IDE similar to intellij, rubymine or pycharm.

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