Elixir Development on Windows 10

My environment is Windows 10 with Vim and Powershell.

Every once and awhile I go for something a little bit more risqué and do explorer ..

Are you really trying to tell me that there is ANY other way to code? Nonsense.

Thanks @NobbZ I’ll try my luck

I’m not aware of any articles, tutorials or stuff.

I just opened my first *.ex, got a banner which told me that there were plugins for this language, which I installed and then dropped about three weeks ago after the ElixirLS has been released.

VScode just worked for me, not like atom where credo didn’t work correctly, it also didn’t crash in the last 6 month.

I’m currently searchin for the best environment for elixir coding on windows. Are there some articles like the one above but for VScode?

As you can see from the linked issue, it’s been a while it was discussed. Roughly at that time I also had a chat with other people hit by that problem and the only people that we were able to find were running on linux. None of the windows folks had luck.

Anyway. Since even my workspace is moving away from atom in favor of VScode and emacs, I do not care any more for atom.

Really? linter-elixir-credo is working on Windows 10 here for me, though I do have the entire mingw suite of tools installed so that may help.

The atom-credo-linter is fundamentally broken by design. It will not work unless you are using a linux system (not even mac, well, but sometimes it will…) and are on an english locale and mix is installed at a certain location where it was found by the creator of the plugin.

Also the creator of the pliugin does not use atom by himself, so the problems will probably never get fixed: How to actually use this plugin? · Issue #10 · smeevil/linter-elixir-credo · GitHub

Hey! I know the last reply here been a while but I hope you can help me…

I’ve been setting up my elixir environment as described in the article but got two problems with credo:

1. It does show some strange characters instead of vertical lines and symbols and no colors. Color in iex work fine. I guess there’s something I need to configure or install for it to work in the command line (I’m using cmder) :

   mix credo

   Code Readability
   Ôöâ
    [R]  Modules should have a @moduledoc tag.
   Ôöâ lib/credo-test.ex:1:11 #(CredoTest)

   Consistency
   Ôöâ
   Ôöâ [C] Ôåù File is using windows line endings while most of the files use unix line
   Ôöâ endings.
   Ôöâ lib/credo-test.ex #()

   Please report incorrect results: Issues · rrrene/credo · GitHub

   Analysis took 0.1 seconds (0.01s to load, 0.09s running checks)
   3 mods/funs, found 1 consistency issue, 1 code readability issue.

   Showing priority issues: Ôåæ Ôåù ÔåÆ (use --strict to show all issues, --help for options).

2. It does not show the credo results in linter. It always shows “0 0 0” (see screenshot below)
   

   

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I’m new to atom and elixir, so please be patient and nice with me Hope someone can help me solve my problems.

I no longer am using Windows because I found that setting up Ubuntu + Erlang was actually quite easy and painless. I started off with Hyper-V and Ubuntu VMs, and then gradually transitioned myself to running it on bare metal as my experience with VMs in Ubuntu has been less than fruitful. Then I found Elixir and this made the process even easier, since Elixir does documentation so ridiculously well.

As for my current tooling, I point you to the Atom thread. Emacs has too many chords for my taste,
and I’ve become more adept at Vim, but I’ve found Atom to be the most productive. I also use VS Code some when working on the javascript side of things.

(Thanks for moving this question @AstonJ…I had asked that it be moved when starting to write this thing!)

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