Hello, few days ago I changed my GPU and I had to switch from Linux to Windows. I consider learning Docker instead of installing Elixir on my machine. Is it worth my time? I’m still learning Elixir basics and I don’t have any experience with Docker, but I thought that maybe it’s a good idea and som…

You shouldn’t compound one unknown with yet another one. Learn Elixir, don’t learn Elixir and Docker at the same time. I’m using Windows 10 to write Elixir – but I use a Linux Mint virtual machine and actually code in there. I recommend you go that route. https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/downlo…

My main current machine runs Windows 10, and having come to it from Linux (Fedora) I’ll attest to WSL2 working remarkably well. I brought my Linux dotfiles along (making a few wsl-specific edits here and there), and I have an environment that feels pretty comfortable. Windows terminal is finally goo…

You can also develop on Windows without using WSL.

Went that route before and can’t quite recommend that. The “elixir experience” on pure Windows can become quite frustrating sometimes although it might have changed since the last time I used it. One of the things that ground my gears back then was that IEx autocompletion simply didn’t work (and wer…

IEx autocompletion, no asdf and sometimes symbols/colours in the terminal are weird are what I notice is lacking, but I figure typing everything means I commit things to memory better. My app is designed to run on Windows only and interacts with other Windows software through a dll, so I don’t have…

Thanks for all replies! I made a small research about Docker and it seems to work a little bit different than I thought. I just set up WSL2 with Ubuntu and installed elixir (sudo apt install erlang elixir), but I have some troubles with ElixirLS. [Capture]

Install elixir and erlang with asdf or using the instructions from Installing Elixir - The Elixir programming language , the versions available on the default repos for ubuntu 20.04 (which is the most common in WSL2) aren’t that updated. IIRC the default elixir version in the ubuntu repos is 1.9 and…

Thanks, I updated elixir to 1.12, but I still get error ‘server crashed 5 times in the last 3 minutes’, no matter if I try in WSL Remote or not.

Can you remove the _build and .elixir_ls folders at the root of the project and let it rebuild again?

Programming in Elixir with Docker on Windows

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jnswtk August 20, 2021, 12:45am 13

I removed _build folder and nothing changed, but .elixir_ls doesn’t even exist.