Thank you! We actually already support this as a code action. Give it a try and let me know how it goes.
JesseHerrick
JesseHerrick
On the SQLite discussion: one of the issues we’ve had with existing LSPs is that they end up eating up a ton of memory and are slow on large codebases. One could argue that in-memory databases might work just as well as SQLite, but SQLite already checks all the boxes we need. Most devs already have SQLite installed on their machines, and the indexing and querying we get out of the box are fantastic. Switching to an in-memory DB is certainly possible, but it’d come with its own trade-offs. SQLite does everything we need with very few drawbacks.
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lud
Not sure what you mean by code action but if it is supposed to work as I described it then it does not.
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JesseHerrick
It’s an LSP feature. It won’t automatically alias for you unless you explicitly run the code action. In VS Code it’s something like Cmd-. and it’ll pop up available code actions.
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dustinfarris
pierrelegall
Incredible work @JesseHerrick!
I allowed myself to publish a package of it on the Archlinux User Repository.
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lpil
Creator of Gleam
Nice work!
One thing I’ve not noticed anyone mention yet (unless I missed it!) is the security benefits of this approach.
Elixir compilation means that executing arbitrary Elixir code, and that can do anything at all. Previously if we wanted to audit a version of a package before adding it to our project (as we should!) we would have to browse the code without any LSP assistance, as doing so would execute not-yet-trusted code. Now with Dexter we can have a proper and modern development environment while exploring new code. Bravo!
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egeersoz
I tried it. It’s great. Remarkable that the first commit seems to have been made only 2 weeks ago, and it already has so many features.
I’ve had major issues with Expert LSP, and have been looking for alternatives. I think if this thing showed compiler warnings/errors inline, it would basically be perfect. But I know the whole point is to offer all these features without compiling. Le sigh.
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rhcarvalho
Good observation, though I wonder if that security aspect is part of the design?
I see on the diagnostics GH issue linked above that Dexter does run the formatter, which I’d imagine involves the compiler/arbitrary code execution.
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