What is the best IDE for elixir?

So the editor easily got out of control and I wanted to remember to persist this data so there’s a public gist on it:

thanks man , i prefer to use atom and VSCode

Gotta say, I ended up discovering proton-mode package for atom, which wipes out your atom config and loads a kind of spacemacs, which is been perfect for me because solves 2 problems:

• Atom likes to crash, too much, even on a crazy Hackintosh setup which can handle like 100 open tabs on chrome lol.
• I want to learn vim/spacemacs for productivity, but the terminal-based counterparts are to terse for me to learn. being able to mix and match my already learned OS/App shortcuts/ux, but at the same time have vim mode-plus (i for insert, etc) and space-macs like for shortcuts (I ended up editing my .proton file to add some extensions I wanted and change theming and Editor settings)

Check it out on GitHub proton-mode

My ~/.proton ended up looking something like this:

:tools/git
:tools/linter
:tools/bookmarks
:tools/build
:tools/minimap
:tools/expose
:tools/terminal
:tools/todo

:lang/markdown
:lang/javascript
:lang/elixir
:lang/html
:lang/css
:lang/json

:pigments
:dash
:autocomplete-paths
:atom-clock
:autocomplete-project-paths
:symbols-tree-nav
:linter-write-good
:language-generic-config
:enhanced-tabs
:indent-guide-improved
:tree-view-autoresize
:markdown-writer
:tree-view-git-status
:undo-tree
:fold-lines

I just use TextMate with the Elixir bundle.

Also see this thread:

From that poll, it’s kinda hidden because of some semi-separation in the vim community, but if you add up: vim: 14%, spacemacs evil: 12%, neovim: 7%, macvim: 2%, it looks like over 1/3 of the respondents to that poll use vim-based keystrokes.

Yeah, there was a little debate on whether to count SpaceMacs (Evil mode) as Vim or Emacs.

Atom 24%
Vim and derivatives 23%
Vim and derivatives AND SpaceMacs (vim mode) 45%

Emacs 5%
Emacs and SpaceMacs (emacs mode) 7%
Emacs and both SpaceMacs modes 19%

Either way there’s no denying how popular Vim and it’s keystrokes are - almost half of users prefer it.

Obviously couldn’t speak to the best one but I’ve been deep in Emacs for the last fifteen years and other than a few small indentation foibles (some stuff with Ecto.Query) elixir-mode is pretty great. For Elixir (and Erlang) especially I recommend using rainbow-mode as well which colors all nested delimiters slightly differently making it a lot nicer on the eyes when looking at the tail end of a deeply nested literal.

VSCode is much lighter than Atom on my Linux Mint.

I use Neovim personally. It’s not an IDE, it’s an editor, but with the plugins available (as someone has posted above), I think it is definitely comparable.