161: Lexical LS and Elixir Dev UX
Thinking Elixir Podcast
The Relationship Between Next LS and Lexical
Lux and LS are two of the three LSPs. Lexical has a similar idea, but it's in an umbrella project. I've just been really impressed with that project as well. We need to have a meeting of the three minds where we talk about Elixir," he says. "I'm not one of these people that broadcast a lot for lexicles for its benefit"
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Speaker 2
If you want to make more money, what you should do is make some more money. Mike,
Speaker 1
i'm literally, i'm not taking this out of contect, like, there is nothing specific.
Speaker 2
This also plays into sort of, like a logic about employment and success and all the sort of stuff, which is just like, you just got to pound the pavement. You just got to get out there and like, do the work. You're like, ok, so what's the work? Nd, they're like, you just got
Speaker 1
to go do it. Specifically. And it's like, ok. Her weird approach to this also leads her to give bad advice. She has like just this ludicrous advice, and like, getting advertisers. She talks about like, local podcast. She's like, you might want to start a local podcast firstte the like, local national distinction doesn't really make sense in podcast because all the distribution is international. Ye. Then she say, one of the things you should do is, if there's like, a restaurant that you like, what you should do it, you should insert an ad in your show for, like, joe's peterea, and then send the peterea your show and be like, if you pay me, i'll keep doing this. What? It's the worst advice, like your sposd tha, just ought like, give free ads to random businesses. Mike,
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at this point in the show, i'd like to just say thanks to our good friends at mc allan scotch. Mcallan, it's the only scotch i drink. Like, what
Speaker 1
are we fucking doing here? I have listened to this infernal episode about how to start a podcast twice. That so incredible to me, how it includes no research. So lake, she has a team of 22 people working at her company. Now, what it'sit'slike, it's like a media empire. She easily could have asigned somebody like a spend a day, like, call around a couple like podcast agents, ask them, like, what's going on in the podcast industry these days? True crime podcast ar up, and like, conversational podcast er down, or like movie podcaster in, like get some intelligence on the industry and give us, like, some insight also,
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just, like, things like, how do you pick a form at what kind of growth t can you actually reasonably expect?
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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