Which existing open source projects would benefit Elixir the most from extra dev effort?

[lackac]

@dimitarvp

Also, this does not exactly help – what about projects who don’t exist yet? Example: I keep pondering trying to write a library that does pretty and efficient data diffing but I am still unsure if that’s actually needed.

@dimitarvp I’m not sure exactly if this is what you are looking for, but a similar feature is finding its way into ExUnit: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/8002

[tmbb]

Makeup (my “port” of pygments, now used by ExDoc) could use some new lexers (I haven’t had much time to work on it now). As of now, ExDoc doesn’t support lexers for languages other than Elixir, but that will change soon, when I implement automatic lexer discovery at app startup time.

[chanon]

ExSync is great! Can really speed up development. Makes development with Elixir super convenient.

I just got a pull request accepted for it that improves it so it also listens to changes to local dependencies (eg. any dependencies you have mix deps set to reference by :path or :in_umbrella).

I also put it in my phoenix app and it works for things the phoenix reloader doesn’t catch.

[justuseapen]

@dokuzbir

Arc

2nd for arc

[marciol]

Whats the differences, if any, between exsync and cortex?

[OvermindDL1]

exsync just does reloading and so forth.

cortex does reloading as well as testing and other things (I hope it gets some updates soon!)

[dimitarvp]

@michalmuskala

I agree with that one. I think the biggest impact you could have in elixir is exactly around tooling and editors. There’s a lot of very useful and cool things that could be done.

Can you give several examples? What has been tripping you up and you wished there was tooling for it?

[SZJX]

phauxth might also benefit from some help. It’s the best authentication/authorization solution so far for me, more intuitive/flexible than coherence. The author seems to be really busy recently.

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I just posted on Looking for open source project to help / learn on without looking at the date of the thread. Sorry for the duplicate !

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