I laughed very loudly
lrosa007
l_tonz
OmanF
Spacemacs
Definitely Spacemacs.
I’ve been using Atom with one of the Elixir plugins (is there more than one?) for a couple of days but missed shell and REPL smooth integration, so I let it go.
I respect the plugin’s developer(s) enormously, just didn’t hit it off right.
Then it was IntelliJ IDEA with KronicDeth’s (hope I get the username correct) plugin.
I have mad props for anyone who is able to code in Java a plugin for IntelliJ, a super sophisticated IDE, to support Elixir, but the configuration on that… I know my way around IntelliJ and even I was overwhelmed.
Then I tried Spacemacs.
Ooooh boy.
Helm to find any functionality I need in a fuzzy-search; Projectile to manage everything about your project; NeoTree/Dired to manage you file system from within Emacs; Avy to snap to any line in the buffer (or even specific character); Vim keybinding honed over 30 years to make you never have to take your hands off the keyboard; Vim’s functionality composition (talking about FP, 30 years ago, FTW) which means, for example, if you know how to delete a single line (d-d) and you know how to reach the end of the buffer (Shift-g) you now know how do delete to the end of the buffer (d-shift-g); Emac’s extendibility which means you have tons of community-developed “layers”, as they’re referred to on Spacemac’s community, to extend your usage (or just roll your own, using e-Lisp, a dialect of Scheme-Lisp… the holy-grail of FP languages)…
And of course, best for last: Alchemist layer allowing seamless integration of Elixir support in Emacs which means, among other: Projectile supports Elixir projects and recognizes them as such; elixir, iex and mix are supported out-of-the-box and better yet, its a three-button sequence to not only launch the correct app, but with flags (e.g. iex -S mix? SPC-m-s-i; mix test? SPC-m-t-a).
Oh, and did I mention I got all this functionality down in about a week of part-time-coding? Imagine what you can learn to do after a month of full-time “coding-is-my-day-job”. A year…
Sure, Emacs’s 30+ years of age show… no fancy, eye-candy GUI.
Just a fast-loading, super productive, robust as hell with very few bugs, “A superb operating system only lacking a decent text editor” (as the known adage goes) piece of software.
Why was I so scared for so long to take this leap of faith?
Not going back to anything else, that’s for sure.
AndyL
Neovim and Alchemist.vim - liberal use of Tmux, Tmuxinator and various watcher script to auto-compile, auto-test
murtza
vonH
How do you run iex ‘inside’ VIm. Is it via a shell like Conque or is it a plugin specially made for Vim and elixir?
OvermindDL1
Just via running a shell in a new window is all.
I’ve mostly migrated to spacemacs now though, I highly recommend it, its basically vim+emacs done right.
nikos
Nicd
Please see this more recent thread for future discussion: Elixir Code Editors & IDEs - which one are you using? (Poll)