Just installed the VS Code extension, working fine for me so far.
Keep up the great work 
bram209
JakeBecker
JakeBecker
Ah, the automatic build and error reporting is by far the hackiest part of ElixirLS. I wrote this blog post about it: Compiler Hacks in ElixirLS. I want to tear it out and replace it.
Any chance you can share your repos with me to help me debug it?
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samuba
Thank you for this project!
Like you I am very spoiled by great IDEs and that is the biggest pain point I have with elixir development right now.
I actually think if this becomes solid it can be a boost for elixir adoption. I know many devs that would skip elixir because of the dev experience right now.
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DominikGuzei
Thanks a lot @JakeBecker, this works brilliantly and i agree with @samuba that better IDE integrations will boost elixir adoption. Im coming from the Javascript world and am very spoiled by IDE (Webstorm) and debugging support (Chrome dev tools). This was actually one of my biggest problems with elixir so far, it felt very unsafe to start a big project with a language that’s hard to debug … simply because i know how important it is to have great tools to dig into the code 
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JakeBecker
smueller
I share the same sentiment as @DominikGuzei, our startup nearly passed up adopting elixir and one of our chief concerns was debugging. In fact, you can see my suggestion to take advantage of VS Code here:
https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-missing-or-needs-improving-in-elixir/2369/136
Our team is ecstatic about your work @JakeBecker, and feel strongly that this will increase elixir adoption. So thank you!
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bram209
JakeBecker
Hi,
I’ve had ElixirLS on the backburner a bit, but I still intend to overhaul the build system entirely. I’ve had some support from Elixir’s core team on adding features to enable this, such as the --all-warnings option that made it into Elixir 1.5: compile.elixir – Mix v1.5.1
However, I’ve been a bit blocked on adding additional changes to Elixir to help with ElixirLS by a PR that’s been in limbo for a month: Add specs for compilers to return diagnostic info from run/1 by JakeBecker · Pull Request #6280 · elixir-lang/elixir · GitHub
I’ve just pinged the core Elixir guys and hopefully they’ll get to it soon. Unfortunately, the earliest this stuff is all likely to work properly is with the release of Elixir 1.6, whenever that ends up being, since there’s a few changes that I want to make to the compilers so they can return their warnings and errors and I can remove the custom compiler from ElixirLS.
Sorry for leaving the build system a mess for the past month, but hopefully I’ll be able to release something more solid soon.
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DFilipeS
How hard could it be to use this with the new Atom IDE stuff? I would be glad to help and look into this.
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