Help an Elixir beginner find missing development tooling!

[mike_bianco]

@hauleth

There was mix console but it was removed

Thanks for this tip! Do you happen to remember what version this was in? I spot checked a couple of versions through 1.3 and didn’t see anything.

@OvermindDL1

If a binding ‘can’ be used in the local scope, then binding() will show it, it just compiles to a keyword list of bindings names to the bindings themselves

Ah! Interesting. Is it possible to retrieve a context for the binding call from System.stacktrace? If so, then we could plug it (ha! no pun intended!) into the Plug.Debugger to retrieve bindings for each level of the stack trace. The issue here is the bindings for Plug.Debugger won’t be helpful, we need bindings up the stack.