I tried VS Code and Atom.
Any IDE out there where I can also check the syntax, compile and run the code from the IDE?
kraades
mkunikow
What I can recommend for now everything based on alchemist-server:
- Atom + GitHub - msaraiva/atom-elixir: An Atom package for Elixir · GitHub
- Spacemacs + Alchemist plugin → you can check forum Spacemacs - General Discussion, Blog Posts, Wiki - #36 by flou
- vim + GitHub - slashmili/alchemist.vim: Elixir Integration Into Vim · GitHub
- sublime https://github.com/smashedtoatoms/sublime-elixir-alchemist
Mayebe in future Intelij + elixir plugin GitHub - KronicDeth/intellij-elixir: Elixir plugin for JetBrain's IntelliJ Platform (including Rubymine) · GitHub
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Deithrian
Using Atom + atom-elixir. Hoping for great future!
Tried to setup Emacs/Spacemacs, but on Windows the experience is rivaling frustration levels I’ve not seen since the floppy disk bad sectors era 
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_zv
Huge vim fan here but I’m honestly not sure how anyone can write Elixir without the Emacs environment.
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ovid-nis
praveenperera
gausby
Emacs and Alchemist.el. Not to brag but I was one of the first people to star alchemist.el on GitHub. Back in the day I was thinking about learning a bit more elisp so I could work on an Elixir mode, but then Samuel started doing the work on alchemist and elixir-mode—way better than I could imagine doing myself.
Besides sending feature requests to Samuel, I’ve been working a bit with adding unit tests for elixir-mode and some minor commits to alchemist. If anyone is interested in my configuration it is right here: emacs.d/setup/elixir-setup.el at master · gausby/emacs.d · GitHub
I am always interested in ideas that can make Elixir + Emacs even better. Perhaps we could start an alchemist thread on this forum.
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quite happy to extend that to general Emacs and/or for you to create a separate one - will leave it up to you Martin.
gausby
While Spacemacs is a good project I personally prefer my own configuration.
I prefer to call Emacs «Emacs» (sometimes I even call it by its full name: Gnu/Emacs, as the elders taught me). Spacemacs is to my best knowledge some alterations to keybindings and a collection of elisp packages, put together and configured to work really nicely for many people. While I am interested in how the Spacemacs configs can improve my Emacs, it is not really “idiomatic” Emacs, and I would probably end up very confused if I tried Spacemacs; but I could see something and go «that is pretty neat, we could do that in Alchemist!»—some of the features that has been added to alchemist over the times has come from other Elixir modes and integrations: one example is the integration with the Hex package manager where information (versions, author, etc) is fetched from hex.pm and displayed in a buffer. That idea was blatantly stolen from a Vim-plugin.
We do nothing to elixir-mode and alchemist that target Spacemacs or any other starter package—it is totally neutral and non-biased in that regard, and in some cases features (such as code folding) are not even considered to be implemented at all because other elisp packages handle that better than alchemist could do, or because some people might prefer an alternative auto complete engine, or something third—so I guess my rant would end with the wish for a vanilla Emacs/Alchemist.el thread; and I’ll pop my head into the Spacemacs thread once in a while to see what’s brewing!
I don’t intent this message to be condescending. It is my hope that it is informative 
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AstonJ
It’s very informative, thanks. Tbh, I have actually wondered whether I should skip learning Spacemacs and just try Emacs and Alchemist instead. I’d be particularly interested in hearing what the differences are, and which people prefer (and why).
So yeah, go ahead and start an Emacs & Alchemist thread - we can make it a wiki like the Spacemacs one if you like?
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