What's the best ide/editor for elixir in 2021?

There really isn’t a right/wrong answer when it comes to Elixir.

Pretty much every editor will give you some access to important parts of the ecosystem which aren’t necessary to make it work.

I watch people be productive in Sublime, Emacs, Vim, VSCode, Atom, and Intellij (okay so Intellij is only one person but still). There isn’t a silver bullet because for the most part communities are working to build tools that are more agnostic now than there ever have been.

If you have an editor you’re familiar with, go with it, if you’re looking to try something different? Try something different. I went from Eclipse to Sublime to Atom to Emacs over the past 15 years and honestly we’re probably at the best point we’ve ever been.

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