Elixir IDE discussion

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@seanwash

I’ve been using Atom most of the morning and the autocomplete is pretty good! Are there any customizations you’ve made, or are you rolling with stock elixir extensions?

Hmm, I have a lot of extensions, let me list the ones that are obviously elixir related or buff it (I might be missing some):

• atom-autocomplete-erlang
• atom-elixir
• atom-elixir-playground
• auto-complete-elixir
• autocomplete-erlang
• build-elixir
• busy-signal
• elixir-cmd
• elixir-pry
• file-icons
• git-status
• git-time-machine
• highlight-selected
• iex
• intentions
• language-elixir
• language-erlang
• linter
• linter-elixir-credo
• linter-elixirc
• linter-ui-default
• minimap
• minimap-bookmarks
• minimap-cursorline
• minimap-find-and-replace
• minimap-git-diff
• minimap-highlight-selected
• minimap-linter
• minimap-pigments
• minimap-selection
• minimap-titles
• phoenix-elixir-snippets
• tree-view-git-status

And an absolute TON more for things like ocaml, javascript, ton of base file types, etc… etc… I have many hundreds of packages installed. ^.^;

@kwando

Bumping up the maximum allowed memory for the Intellij JVM usually makes it perform better. JVM loves chewing memory.

I very much had to do that with mine when I edited a few java projects last, kept crashing until I did. Also not a professional indicator. ^.^;

@axelson

Does the Atom package work with umbrella projects? Autocompletion isn’t currently working for me.

Not tried, I don’t use umbrella’s. I prefer making individual distinct libraries then a ‘mega’ project that just depends on all of those (with little to no code in it). It’s a pattern I’ve used since the erlang days, but it works wonderfully with it.

@sztosz

I tried Atom, but it’s really slow for me, and i have no idea how to change this stupid default behaviour of cmd+click on osx which put’s another cursor when it’s clicked. There seems to be, sadly, no way to redefine this to something actually useful.

That is configurable. You can hit Ctrl+. to turn on the key resolver, then do ‘something’ and it pops up at the bottom what was bound and what happened, and you can just rebind those keys in your settings or so. My Ctrl+Click, since I use the hyperclick package (and lots of addons, I forgot to list it above), will open up the definition file for whatever I clicked on.

@sztosz

I use daily Rubymine for work, and the only slowdown I see is when I open a new project that was never yet indexed by Rubymine, it takes teens of seconds for bigger projects, but then works without any slowdown. And it’s go to definition, or go to usage has no match actually, and let me navigate code very swiftly. That is why I tried IDEA for Elixir and I am really satisfied with what it offers. I tried vs-code with elixir plugin too, and it was OK too, but IDEA plugin made by @KronicDeth is simply better.

This is something a lot of people keep saying is the indexing, but I never noticed that slowing down Intellij, it ran in the background just fine without slowing anything down (intellisense did not work until it was done, but eh) so that was actually a slow-down that I never experienced with Intellij, it’s background processing seems just fine.

@PatNowak

I tried to use IntelliJ’s plugin but it wasn’t that good as I expected (issues with autocompletion and coloring syntax). Atom is a bit crashy, but for me it’s the best one with Elixir & Phoenix plugins.

Post the crash logs. It should absolutely not crash, they are hard on that currently.

@law

The Autocomplete items list seems to mostly update on compile, so I try to compile often. The build-elixir package is good for that. Compile on save was a bad idea for me though, it was very disruptive.

I also use linter-elixir-credo and atom-elixir.

I like compile-on-save, I use a linter that lints that along with credo’s linter. What is disruptive?

@ryh

Emacs with Alchemist mode. I’ve tried the other editors, but the key chords in Emacs are what I’m comfortable with.

I wanted to have a cool text editor with a cool theme, but I’ve just settled down with Emacs with the default theme and a few choice customizations

Heh, I use elixir via emacs a lot too, it is very nice, just lacks a few features I use too often in atom. ^.^;