The official Elixir Language Server team

I'm not sure if there is a better Programming Language community out there?

I would love for someone to point to another group of diverse people who have so consistently gotten things right, in the right ways at the right times.

For Example:

1. The language is both expressive, performant and approachable

2. Its best in class when you have strong concurrency / realtime needs

3. Since 1.0 they've declared Elixir "finished" and committed to making few breaking changes.

4. They've instead pushed energy into other important areas like Language Servers, Typing support, Data science / ML capabilities, embedded systems, etc...

5. And have done so while maintaining an extremely friendly and welcoming community with nearly no drama.

Again would love to know who else is worth of this same amount of praise, but to me Jose Valim, Chris McCord, the rest of the Elixir/Phoenix Core Teams and the Community as a whole is in a league of their own.

>making it so every application and its dependencies have to be compiled twice in development: once for Mix and once for the Language Server. Wouldn’t it be nice if Elixir and the Language Servers could all rely on the same compilation artifacts?

>This is not news to the Elixir team either: almost every Elixir release within the last 3 years has shipped new code analysis APIs, such as Code.Fragment, with the goal of removing duplication across Language Servers, IEx, and Livebook, as well as reduce their reliance on internal Elixir modules. Most recently, Elixir v1.17 shipped with new APIs to help developers emulate the compiler behaviour.

It is crazy how many things MS/Roslyn team got right.

They were like decade ahead about their red-green trees, compiler as a service/library instead of .exe

Exposing compiler level things which enabled IDE makers or 3rd party ppl who wanted to create tools

https://ericlippert.com/2012/06/08/red-green-trees/

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer/blob/master/docs/...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8921782/what-are-the-ben...

I’ve been using Elixir professionally for a couple of years and honestly, the only area where Elixir is not top-notch is the language server, which runs the risk of alienating folks who hear the hype and want to try it out.

I’m optimistic that LS will finally be done right, and that should help convince those curious about Elixir to stick around and __actually__ use it.

It should also make it easier to sell decision makers on Elixir as a serious language.

The language server story in Elixir has always been lagging behind other languages, ElixirLS has been workable but nothing to write home about.

I've had some time to use Lexical recently (one of the alternative LS mentioned) and it's considerably snappier compared to ElixirLS, but it didn't have feature-parity, understandably.

This is really great news.

This is huge news. I love Elixir but the language server situation has been a pain point. Can't wait to have an official LS with the best of the existing options.

This is excellent news. It speaks volumes about the engineers and the community that these separate teams are coming together to build a complete, stable solution.

Fantastic.

The LSP story is definitely one of Elixirs big weaknesses. Issues with performance, missing autocomplete, not being able to jump to definitions inside macros, are quite annoying to deal with.

Great news.