Experience with Elixir in comparision to R - how to develop without something like RStudio?

[AstonJ]

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We have a few options - tho many are not a full blown IDE they come pretty close

First, you may find this poll interesting:

Elixir Code Editors & IDEs - which one are you using? (Poll)

Please see the new poll here: Which code editor or IDE do you use? (Poll) (2022 Edition) It’s been a while since we first asked this, I wonder if things have changed much… please let us know which code editor or IDE you are using and if possible, your set-up and plugins used too. poll

And here are some other threads of interest:

Spacemacs - General Discussion, Blog Posts, Wiki

A wiki for Spacemacs Spacemacs with Alchemist is an extremely popular set-up to use for Elixir development. Give it a try by following our guide here and let us know what you think! http://spacemacs.org - Official SpaceMacs site http://www.alchemist-elixir.org - Alchemist Elixir site Installation We need to install Emacs first, then Spacemacs, then add the Elixir layer to SpaceMacs: 1) Emacs installation Here are the instructions for OS X (from their wiki). For other platforms look here. …

Emacs - Elixir Setup Configuration Wiki

This post is a wiki (feel free to hit the edit button near the bottom right of this post to add your own changes!) This post collects concrete information about configuring Emacs to be an Elixir editing environment. Related posts/info: General Elixir Emacs resources/links/blog posts: Emacs - General Discussion, Blog Posts, Wiki Emacs lsp thread: Emacs lsp-mode (language server) + elixir-ls anyone? - #15 by rodrigues Overview Alchemist - Very full featured but development has stalled, n…

SpaceVim - like SpaceMacs but for Vim!

[image] SpaceVim is a community-driven vim distribution that seeks to provide layer feature, especially for neovim. It offers a variety of layers to choose from. to create a suitable vim development environment, you just need to select the required layers. http://spacevim.org/ Anybody tried it?

How to setup vim for elixir development

I just wrote a simple guide on how you can setup a productive elixir development environment in vim. Its really easy, just a few steps. For completetion , go to def and other lsp features i wrote a simple plugin (https://github.com/amiralies/coc-elixir) for coc.nvim which is just a simple port of vscode elixir lsp plugin (it actually uses the language server which vscode plugin uses).

IntelliJ Elixir - Elixir plugin for JetBrain's IntelliJ Platform

Elixir plugin for JetBrain’s IntelliJ Platform (including Rubymine) This is a plugin that adds support for Elixir to JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA platform IDEs (DataGrip, AppCode, IntelliJ IDEA, PHPStorm, PyCharm, Rubymine, WebStorm). It works with the free, open source Community edition of IntelliJ IDEA in addition to the paid JetBrains IDEs like Ultimate edition of IntelliJ. No feature is locked to a the paid version of the IDEs, but the plugin works best in IntelliJ because only IntelliJ suppo…

And a few more at the code-editors tag.

On the Elixir website there is also a list of code editor support with install instructions

CODE EDITOR SUPPORT

• Emacs Mode
• Alchemist (Emacs Elixir Tooling)
• TextMate / Sublime Text Bundle
• Sublime Plugin
• Vim Elixir
• Alchemist.vim (Vim Elixir Tooling)
• GtkSourceView (gedit)
• Atom Package
• IntelliJ Elixir
• Visual Studio Code Elixir

I’d recommend trying a few and seeing which one you prefer, and if you run into any issues or have any other questions just let us know