TwistingTwists

TwistingTwists

I’ve seen people use following

  1. Emacs
  2. Vim
  3. Spacemacs
  4. Onivim2
  5. Vscode

Vscode’s file navigation - I don’t prefer it. It is confusing.

Would love to know the pro/cons of the elixir tooling present in different editors. (Or maybe from the future prospect of features)

P S. This is not another “which editor is best debate”. Really, just which one has better tooling support for Elixir development.

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thojanssens1

thojanssens1

I use Vscode but I really miss IntelliJ :cry: the latter being quite expensive

cmo

cmo

Can’t you use a free version of one of the Jetbrains IDEs? Jetbrains test runners and debug are great.

I have all the all products pack which is about $150/yr(?), which is not many hours work.

Pretty much all editors have the LSP so I don’t think there are huge differences between the popular ones. If you’re old use Emacs, if you’re cool use vim, if you’re a numpty use vscode, if you are rich use Jetbrains.

Hallski

Hallski

I’m a poor, occasionally old, cool and numpty person!

For Elixir I currently use VSCode as it works well enough out of the box and I use it for React due to Emacs & Vim not doing JSX+Typescript very well. (And text rendering is much better than Emacs on macOS).

If I were to work full time in Elixir I’d likely look into getting old(er) and make sure to have Emacs setup properly for it.

I use Vim for pretty much everything else (and often use it inlined in the VSCode terminal for committing and opening files outside the project)

dimitarvp

dimitarvp

Been using Emacs for 20 years, Spacemacs for the last 2, and looking to move to NeoVim / LunarVim sometime Soon™. NeoVim is just so much faster in everything it does, I love it. Emacs / Spacemacs is sluggish and super slow at times and it gets on my nerves because I have a fairly solid workstation and literally everything else flies.

Hallski

Hallski

I found Spacemacs to feel really sluggish when I last tried it, you should give Doom a shot. It’s extremely snappy in comparison (granted it was a while ago that I last tried Spacemacs so it might have improved since then).

dimitarvp

dimitarvp

I probably should try it indeed, the question is how quickly I’d be able to get the same functionality as Spacemacs.

I’m so fed up that anything beyond 1 hour will likely put me off.

I have also seen another very promising candidate: CentaurEmacs.

Sebb

Sebb

I’ve tried all but emacs and onivim. Onivim is interesting but development seems to have stopped.

Spacemacs is too crazy for me. Vscode works fine.

I’d like to try out (neo)vim again. Is it possible to just load a config and is set up for elixir development?

crova

crova

I used to use Vim since forever and last year I moved to doom.
It is sluggish sometimes, specially with laaaaarge files, but thankfully I don’t stumble upon that many huge files to be deterrent.
I can’t really live without org anymore so I accept the sluggishness when it comes.

derek-zhou

derek-zhou

I use terminal emacs with just elixir-mode, not the one based on language server. It is snappy even on a lame VPS.

I don’t want to be spoiled by fancy tools so I can’t be productive in a lesser environment. I figured terminal emacs with a few ELPA packages should be available anywhere.

dimitarvp

dimitarvp

Yes, definitely. It’s just that at this point I’m so fed up that I will not even give Emacs these few other last chances. :003:

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