Language Servers underpin the language specific support we rely on in modern code editors. Lately, there have been new efforts in this area in the Elixir community. We talk with Steve Cohen about his project Lexical LS to learn about his new Elixir Language Server, how long he's been at it, and what it can do today. We learn about some of the technical challenges when creating a tool like this, and why there's still room for new projects in this area. Steve explains how Lexical LS is architected and that it is a goal to be easy to contribute to and work on the Lexical project itself. Time to give it a try!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/161

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.15.4 – Elixir v1.15.3 and v1.15.4 were released. v1.15.4 includes fixes for running on Erlang/OTP 26.
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.15.3 – Elixir v1.15.3 release notes
https://gleam.run/news/v0.30-local-dependencies-and-enhanced-externals/ – Gleam v0.30 was released
https://news.livebook.dev/whats-new-in-livebook-0.10---introducing-multi-session-livebook-apps-3Dbpss – The Livebook v0.10 was released
https://gitlab.com/MachinesAreUs/archeometer – Archeometer analyzes your project and now supports a --format livemd
https://twitter.com/MachinesAreUs/status/1676127531840204800 – Archeometer Twitter share with Livebook demo
https://gitlab.com/MachinesAreUs/archeometer/-/merge_requests/205 – MR for the new feature
https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1679919717648138241 – Learned about "repo_transact" as an alternative to Ecto.Multi
https://tomkonidas.com/repo-transact/ – Blog post about repo_transact with the code
https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1678721797561131012 – German Valesco highlighted the new DateTime comparison functions added in Elixir 1.15.
https://github.com/phoenixframework/dns_cluster – DNS Cluster - Simple DNS clustering for distributed Elixir nodes
https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1679902629000880128 – Apical 0.2.0 released - an OpenAPI schema builder
https://0x7f.dev/post/ntp-implementation-in-elixir – Post about implementing a Network Time Protocol in Elixir.
https://erikarow.land/articles/mix-completions – Post about implementing shell completions for mix tasks
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBMoE8mCkXijPYoLCKtWeHa-q69EYwDf – Youtube playlist for published GigCityElixir conference talks

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/lexical-lsp/lexical – Lexical LS Github project
https://github.com/lexical-lsp/vscode-lexical – Lexical VS Code project
https://github.com/lexical-lsp/vscode-lexical#known-issues – Currently need to using Erlang 25.2
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lexical-lsp.lexical – VS Marketplace Link for Lexical LS extension
https://venturebeat.com/dev/pinterest-elixir/
https://discord.com/invite/elixir – Join the Elixir Discord
https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir_sense
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Unicode_encodings

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/icecreamcohen – on Twitter
https://github.com/scohen/ – on Github

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161: Lexical LS and Elixir Dev UX

Thinking Elixir Podcast