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161: Lexical LS and Elixir Dev UX

Thinking Elixir Podcast

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The Importance of Language Servers

lexical LS is a language server that runs on your computer. Your editor connects to it and speaks JSON RPC as you would a web service. The document typically is a Elixir file or any code in a programming language. And then the server takes the document and then your editor will broadcast changes, things happen like it gets compiled,. Then warnings are emitted or errors are emittedor suggestions for how to change the code.

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