Hi all,

First, thanks for the support on ElixirLS, feels good to see people use and appreciate it I agree with @michalmuskala that it doesn’t belong as part of Elixir core for the time being. Unless that means someone (not me) is going to start working on it full time, it would probably end up slowing the release cycle without much benefit. Also, it seems to me to be a little too broad to be a “core” library, since it pulls in dependencies like JSON and Elixir Sense which would then need to be core projects too, I think.

The core Elixir team have been supportive of the project, in particular helping me add diagnostic returns to the Mix compilers in Elixir 1.6. So if it really does need support from the core team in the future we can continue to make that happen

There’s a saying that things go to stdlib to die - it’s very hard to develop or change libraries when they are in standard library, because of the slower release rate. Elixir-ls is still very well into development phase, changes often and implements new features all the time. Even because of this, it’s not a good candidate to include in core. Maybe once it stabilises, this should be revisited, but I’m convinced now it’s not a good time for this.

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

ElixirLS works well and it’s up to other editors to simply support the language server protocol if they want to tag along. I don’t know that we need it to be part of the core team and I think unless the person/people working on it gets paid specifically for that it doesn’t necessarily make a difference.