What Is a Language Server?

Language servers are an important part of modern developer tooling. Mitch Hanberg has made this his new focus with gen_lsp, a generic language server behaviour that he then implemented a Credo language server on top of. Yes, that's right, Credo! We learn what that means and what his new elixir-tools Github organization is intended to do. Listen to Mich share his vision for what Elixir dev tools could be like! We get an update on his Temple project, an alternative to Phoenix templates, we learn about an existing Elixir formatter plugin that may reformat code more to your liking and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/153

Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.15.0-rc.0 – Elixir 1.15-rc.0
• https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/CjY7W9xvu80 – Proposal for adding URI sigil
• https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/MfB7GJSXV5w – Proposal for adding UTC sigil
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/149 – More on Logging from Łukasz Niemier
• https://twitter.com/ac_alejos/status/1658943203364544512 – Exgboost library released
• https://github.com/acalejos/exgboost/blob/main/notebooks/iris_classification.livemd – Livebook example for Exgboost
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG8iwK_6KIg – ElixirConf EU Lightning Talk that visualizes supervisor behaviors using the classic computer game Doom with monster spawning and killing.
• https://github.com/amalbuquerque/doom-supervisor – Github project for DoomSupervisor
• http://twitch.com/josevalim – José Valim has resumed some Live coding and chatting on Twitch.
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1660300292619923457 – José sharing on Twitter that a Twitch Livestream will start

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

Discussion Resources

• https://github.com/elixir-tools/credo-language-server – LSP implementation for Credo
• https://github.com/elixir-tools/gen_lsp – A behavior for creating language servers
• https://github.com/elixir-tools – Githug organization
• https://simplebet.io/index.html
• https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls
• https://twitter.com/mitchhanberg/status/1648327430912843779
• https://www.mitchellhanberg.com/credo-language-server-and-the-birth-of-elixir-tools/ – Blog post about the Credo Language Server and Elixir Tools
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/92 – Previous interview about Temple (March 29th, 2022)
• https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.17/specification/ – Language Server spec from Microsoft
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug-SEozyG1A – Code BEAM talk - "OTP Process Abstractions with proc lib"
• https://github.com/adobe/elixir-styler – Formatter plugin from Adobe
• https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter
• https://github.com/elixir-toniq/norm
• https://github.com/mhanberg/temple
• https://github.com/petalframework/petal_components

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/mitchhanberg – on Twitter
• https://github.com/mhanberg/ – on Github
• https://hachyderm.io/@mitchhanberg – on Fediverse
• https://www.mitchellhanberg.com/ – Blog
• https://champions-of-hope.funraise.org/fundraiser/mitchell-hanberg – Fund raising page for FightCRC

Find us online

• Message the show - @ThinkingElixir
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• Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com
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