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There are several different LSP implementations of Elixir, each with their own pros and cons. Last year they all agreed to collaborate on an LSP; is this going to be the result of that?

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2024/08/15/welcome-elixir-langu...

abrookewood · 7h ago

Yes, that's correct. Pretty exciting.

stanmancan · 7h ago

Yup

sorentwo · 9h ago

The architecture is remarkable. The lengths they’ve gone to for language version compatibility, and protecting app namespaces is especially impressive.

https://github.com/elixir-lang/expert/blob/main/pages/archit...

ashton314 · 5h ago

Oo I’m excited for this. The old official language server is fine—it does its job on most of the code bases I’ve worked on, but occasionally I will do something funny that makes the compiler slow down and that pummels the LS performance. I hope this works out some of the kinks that occasionally would make elixir-ls slow.

epiccoleman · 6h ago

Oh I'm excited for this. Editor support for elixir has never been quite as good as I'd like. I'm really happy to see they're investing in this - no lang with as consistently great a developer experience as elixir should be without a proper, official, well supported lang server.

Can't wait to try it out!

vittore · 9h ago

Interesting choice to use just

mtndew4brkfst · 9h ago

It has both a justfile and a makefile at the root, even. Most of us seem to want to use it to throw make away entirely.

That said, I consider `just` very language-agnostic and useful because of that, and I consider mix pretty bad at any workflow needs that isn't directly concerned with BEAM.

zamalek · 7h ago

It's not technically a make replacement (make does do things like incremental build management etc.), but it just goes to show how bad the DX of make is.

0x457 · 7h ago

IMO 'just' replaces make where make shouldn't be used - generic task runner.

MangoToupe · 8h ago

I think it's hard for me to name better software than make. TeX, maybe? that seems like an insanely high bar to clear.

keeganpoppen · 9h ago

i'm a pretty big fan of just, personally, but do not consider that to be the world's most well-considered position by any means...

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Expert: LSP for Elixir

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