SoCreat
What's the best ide/editor for elixir in 2021?
i’m a new one to elixir
which editor can i use
vs code? or atom?
Thanks! 
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dimitarvp
Mandatory clarification: there is no “best” tool in almost any area. You pick what you like for the functionality that you require and are willing to give up other functionality you don’t deem important.
I personally can’t stand Visual Studio Code but many people like it, plus the active plugin system allows the community to improve the IDE constantly. So it’s very likely a safe bet for you.
I went for Emacs with a language server and a few addons for project management, searching inside files etc. I don’t care about auto-generated typespecs and semi-automated refactoring so I don’t miss VS Code.
We also have people here who use VIM + addons for Elixir development.
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egze
I’m still on TextMate. Tried to switch to VSCode and other editors multiple times, but always went back.
AndyL
Neovim and Tmux are the best.
juhalehtonen
I’ve recently started to use VSCode with Elixir again. While I still use IntelliJ IDEA for every other language, the tooling available for VSCode (and my inability to make the tooling work properly on IDEA) is just too great of an offer to miss.
Things like incremental Dialyzer analysis, automatic suggestion for @spec annotations, and various other quality-of-life features make VSCode the ultimate Elixir experience for me
Perhaps other editors/IDEs can be configured to do everything the vscode-elixir-ls plugin does, but I haven’t managed (or put in the effort) to do that.
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thecoldwine
I don’t do heave IDEs for Elixir since normally it is multilang project for me (elixir / python / js / whatever else).
I would say the best IDE really depends on what OS you’re working on. For Windows options (in my opinion) are limited, since it is just easier to run Elixir under WSL/WSL2, which leads you to VSCode + elixir-ls.
Hovewer my favourite editor is Sublime, VSCode tends to slow down with every release and I can’t stand slow working tools, it feels really unproductive.