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During my foray into Elixir I never found the develop environment as smooth as other languages.
by nw05678 1y ago
During my foray into Elixir I never found the develop environment as smooth as other languages.
- bo0tzz 1y agoA bunch of work is currently going into improving that.
- innocentoldguy 1y agoWhat do you mean by "develop environment"? Are you referring to IDE support or features like mix, IEx, pry, releases, etc.? If the latter, Elixir has one of the best development environments, in my opinion. Mix is fantastic, releases are easy, and Elixir's error messages in IEx are the clearest I've seen in my 30+ year career. I use Emacs to write code, and beyond syntax coloring, I don't want anything else, so you may have a point if you're talking about IDE support.
- atonse 1y agoas others have said, there’s a lot of work going into improving the dev experience. There were 3 LSP implementations. they’re getting combined, so IDE support should improve. There’s technically a step through debugger, but it’s extremely slow if you actually get it working. There is a new type system too.