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The elixir-tools Update Vol. 4 (elixir-tools.dev)
68 points by mhanberg 976 days ago
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sb8244 976 days ago
Thanks for your work here!
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mhanberg 976 days ago
Thanks!
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withinboredom 976 days ago
The banding on the background is incredibly annoying, but looks interesting. I was considering learning Elixir the last few weeks, and I'm still on the fence. Does anyone have any good tips on how to set up a decent dev environment (IDE/debugging/etc.)?
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out_of_protocol 976 days ago
VSCode + ElixirLS is usually enough for everything. ASDF is a useful tool to install desired Erlang/Elixir version. Don't think you need anything else
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abrookewood 975 days ago
I actually use RTX instead of ASDF as it's significantly faster and doesn't rely on shims. But you should definitely use one of them.

[0] https://github.com/jdx/rtx

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mhanberg 975 days ago
I have also switched to rtx, and even use it in the Next LS build pipeline as an easy way to install Elixir & OTP.

https://github.com/elixir-tools/next-ls/blob/main/.cirrus.ym...

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roblh 975 days ago
Definitely use ASDF for managing it. I’ve started using it for Node too and I quite like it, even though I was pretty hesitant to start using yet another package manager.
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throwawaymaths 976 days ago
Direnv is generally a good idea once your project reaches a certain level of complexity
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mhanberg 976 days ago
Well sounds like you came to the right place!

You can get started easily by installing the elixir-tools.vscode extension for VSCode and be off to the races!

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=elixir-t...

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fillskills 975 days ago
Maybe try livebook to get feet wet: https://news.livebook.dev/data-wrangling-in-elixir-with-expl...
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ric7setti 976 days ago
why not using elixir lsp? what problem next ls is trying to solve?
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mhanberg 976 days ago
Author here!

The answer to your question is in the FAQ on the website for Next LS in particular, and a motivation for the whole elixir-tools family of projects on the home page

https://www.elixir-tools.dev/next-ls/#faq

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atonse 975 days ago
This is AWESOME!! seems to fix every single issue I’ve had with elixir LSP.

Not sure how I’ve never heard of elixir tools in spite of being a full time elixir dev.

Going to install this first thing tomorrow.

I hope you guys are adding first class test and debugging support too. (Maybe you have, I haven’t read the whole list of features)

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waynesonfire 976 days ago
TLDR, NIH
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mhanberg 976 days ago
What?
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abrookewood 975 days ago
Not Invented Here
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mhanberg 975 days ago
I wonder if waynesonfire will ever return to elaborate on what the mean exactly by that.

I'm not really sure how 'Not Invented Here' applies to someone building an OSS project.

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