How do you guys do your work in Elixir on everyday basis, in production, on commercial job, for a long time (years)? (Sorry for huge text, I just want to describe context properly.) I’m thinking to move from Java to Elixir and currently I’m stuck because Java IDEs looks much more developed and pra…

I just use VIM not an IDE. I don’t use any of the elixir plugins either except for the colors. I should probably get an autocomplete plugin working eventually but it hasn’t been a priority. imagine you decided to rename a named function after a couple of years. How often do you actually do thi…

Elixir LS is really good, so useful I just switched to vscode. [image] ElixirLS - the Elixir Language Server Discussions TL;DR: I’ve just released an implementation of Microsoft’s IDE-independent Language Server Protocol for Elixir. It adds language support an…

How often do you actually do this? On a big project lasting for years refactoring is not just normal, it is mandatory to fight technical debt. It was just one example, but such situations happen regularly. Sounds like an issue with your workflow if you’re regularly renaming functions. One day…

It looks fine indeed, but it’s VS Code who limits productivity. For example, no refactorings at all.

On a big project lasting for years refactoring is not just normal, it is mandatory to fight technical debt. Agreed but renaming functions as part of your refactoring shouldn’t be a normal task. Refactor in private. Even in statically typed language some usual refactorings does not bring syntac…

Not gonna argue for or against IDEs; I try to use VSCode but recompiling several (or several hundred) files before I even save a one-line change has been getting on my nerves due to ElixirLS being so aggressive that it manages to slow down a moderately impressive desktop machine (and a quite strong …

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kokolegorille December 24, 2018, 9:23pm 3

Elixir LS is really good, so useful I just switched to vscode.