May 30, 2023

153: Elixir Tools and Language Servers

56 minutes

Language servers are an important part of modern developer tooling. Mitch Hanberg has made this his new focus with gen_lsp, a generic language server behaviour that he then implemented a Credo language server on top of. Yes, that's right, Credo! We learn what that means and what his new elixir-tools Github organization is intended to do. Listen to Mich share his vision for what Elixir dev tools could be like! We get an update on his Temple project, an alternative to Phoenix templates, we learn about an existing Elixir formatter plugin that may reformat code more to your liking and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/153

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.15.0-rc.0 – Elixir 1.15-rc.0

https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/CjY7W9xvu80 – Proposal for adding URI sigil

https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/MfB7GJSXV5w – Proposal for adding UTC sigil

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/149 – More on Logging from Łukasz Niemier

https://twitter.com/ac_alejos/status/1658943203364544512 – Exgboost library released

https://github.com/acalejos/exgboost/blob/main/notebooks/iris_classification.livemd – Livebook example for Exgboost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG8iwK_6KIg – ElixirConf EU Lightning Talk that visualizes supervisor behaviors using the classic computer game Doom with monster spawning and killing.

https://github.com/amalbuquerque/doom-supervisor – Github project for DoomSupervisor

http://twitch.com/josevalim – José Valim has resumed some Live coding and chatting on Twitch.

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1660300292619923457 – José sharing on Twitter that a Twitch Livestream will start

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/elixir-tools/credo-language-server – LSP implementation for Credo

https://github.com/elixir-tools/gen_lsp – A behavior for creating language servers

https://github.com/elixir-tools – Githug organization

https://simplebet.io/index.html

https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls

https://twitter.com/mitchhanberg/status/1648327430912843779

https://www.mitchellhanberg.com/credo-language-server-and-the-birth-of-elixir-tools/ – Blog post about the Credo Language Server and Elixir Tools

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/92 – Previous interview about Temple (March 29th, 2022)

https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.17/specification/ – Language Server spec from Microsoft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug-SEozyG1A – Code BEAM talk - "OTP Process Abstractions with proc lib"

https://github.com/adobe/elixir-styler – Formatter plugin from Adobe

https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter

https://github.com/elixir-toniq/norm

https://github.com/mhanberg/temple

https://github.com/petalframework/petal_components

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/mitchhanberg – on Twitter

https://github.com/mhanberg/ – on Github

https://hachyderm.io/@mitchhanberg – on Fediverse

https://www.mitchellhanberg.com/ – Blog

https://champions-of-hope.funraise.org/fundraiser/mitchell-hanberg – Fund raising page for FightCRC

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