[dfischer]

I’ve found the ecosystem to be quite high quality but the editor tooling does fall short sometimes. Particularly the transition from Alchemist to an editor powered by the new language server protocol.

I can’t say it’s anything other than the fault of not enough spare time. The community is a bit smaller so there are not as many volunteers to build out the latest and greatest tooling for editor support.

Despite this, I’ve had a wonderful experience working within the elixir ecosystem and using it as a gateway to erlang. One of the things I had to acknowledge was my bias towards recent updates as a measure of quality. The ecosystem is so good that you’ll find packages years old and never updated. It simply does that it does and does it well.

I found overall great support in VS Code at the end of the day for Elixir. I wanted it to work well with emacs but it wasn’t consistently enjoyable.

VS Code works well enough for now between the satisfaction of shipping code and the satisfaction of a flick of the wrist for editor commands.