July 25, 2023

161: Lexical LS and Elixir Dev UX

57 minutes

Language Servers underpin the language specific support we rely on in modern code editors. Lately, there have been new efforts in this area in the Elixir community. We talk with Steve Cohen about his project Lexical LS to learn about his new Elixir Language Server, how long he's been at it, and what it can do today. We learn about some of the technical challenges when creating a tool like this, and why there's still room for new projects in this area. Steve explains how Lexical LS is architected and that it is a goal to be easy to contribute to and work on the Lexical project itself. Time to give it a try!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/161

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.15.4 – Elixir v1.15.3 and v1.15.4 were released. v1.15.4 includes fixes for running on Erlang/OTP 26.

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.15.3 – Elixir v1.15.3 release notes

https://gleam.run/news/v0.30-local-dependencies-and-enhanced-externals/ – Gleam v0.30 was released

https://news.livebook.dev/whats-new-in-livebook-0.10---introducing-multi-session-livebook-apps-3Dbpss – The Livebook v0.10 was released

https://gitlab.com/MachinesAreUs/archeometer – Archeometer analyzes your project and now supports a --format livemd

https://twitter.com/MachinesAreUs/status/1676127531840204800 – Archeometer Twitter share with Livebook demo

https://gitlab.com/MachinesAreUs/archeometer/-/merge_requests/205 – MR for the new feature

https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1679919717648138241 – Learned about "repo_transact" as an alternative to Ecto.Multi

https://tomkonidas.com/repo-transact/ – Blog post about repo_transact with the code

https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1678721797561131012 – German Valesco highlighted the new DateTime comparison functions added in Elixir 1.15.

https://github.com/phoenixframework/dns_cluster – DNS Cluster - Simple DNS clustering for distributed Elixir nodes

https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1679902629000880128 – Apical 0.2.0 released - an OpenAPI schema builder

https://0x7f.dev/post/ntp-implementation-in-elixir – Post about implementing a Network Time Protocol in Elixir.

https://erikarow.land/articles/mix-completions – Post about implementing shell completions for mix tasks

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBMoE8mCkXijPYoLCKtWeHa-q69EYwDf – Youtube playlist for published GigCityElixir conference talks

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

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/lexical-lsp/lexical – Lexical LS Github project

https://github.com/lexical-lsp/vscode-lexical – Lexical VS Code project

https://github.com/lexical-lsp/vscode-lexical#known-issues – Currently need to using Erlang 25.2

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lexical-lsp.lexical – VS Marketplace Link for Lexical LS extension

https://venturebeat.com/dev/pinterest-elixir/

https://discord.com/invite/elixir – Join the Elixir Discord

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Unicode_encodings

Guest Information

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

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

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