I’ve used Phoenix for multiple projects until now and they all are deployed to production and used by real users. At home I really like to use Vim, but at my workplace I’m using IntelliJ products. One of the main reasons why I can’t sell Elixir/Phoenix to my co-workers is that IntelliJ products do not seem to work well with Elixir. IntelliJ IDEA is almost nothing more than a glorified syntax highlighter. There exists (as far as I know) one not-too-actively maintained Elixir plugin for IDEA and that’s it. I’ve not seen debugger working even once and if there is one comma missing somewhere then IDEA code formatting breaks in a big fire.

Has anyone better experience while working with Elixir using IntelliJ products or is that a normal situation for this ecosystem and there’s no hope of pitching Elixir/Phoenix ever to my co-workers as long as they’re avid IntelliJ products users? Of course I would like to use debugger too occasionally, but since Elixir is quite an easy language in my opinion then there’s not that much of a need for it personally.

Any suggestions for working with Elixir using IntelliJ products is more than welcome of course.