elixir-styler VS next-ls

Yeah, the LSP situation remains a sore point, which is deeply unfortunate. One of the big reasons I like Gleam! Luckily, there are new contenders popping up to hopefully solve the issues with elixir-ls: try https://github.com/elixir-tools/next-ls or https://github.com/lexical-lsp/lexical. They might give a better experience.

> By the way, the official Elixir website recommends using Homebrew to install it. But almost everyone in the Github issues and comments says ASDF is the way to go.

The Elixir website is right. Just use Homebrew until you find a real need for asdf or similar tools. It's far simpler.

asdf (or mise[0]) is merely a way to manage different runtime versions between various projects, you would use it the same way as one might use rbenv/rvm, nvm/n, or even Docker/nix, and so on. You don't need it until you have several ongoing projects requiring different runtime versions. If you reach that point, great! It'll be worth the effort then, and it isn't difficult.

Personally, I just use Homebrew elixir for easy ad-hoc access to iex/livebook. If I truly need reproducible environments, devbox[1] (a sort of nix wrapper) is nice and extremely straightforward.

Tl;dr: Just use Homebrew. If your requirements expand beyond that, you'll have far more challenging problems to deal with.

[0] https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html

[1] https://www.jetify.com/devbox

We also use `zig cc` to find NIFs inside your project, and re-compile them for the target platform.

Currently as a non-trivial proof of concept, one of the latest LSP editor plugins for Elixir, NextLS (https://github.com/elixir-tools/next-ls), is using Burrito to effortlessly deploy a single-file binary of the language server to thousands of people already.

Burrito was created to help folks use Elixir for applications outside of the standard Web App space. I hope it helps expand the type of projects people use Elixir for, and I'm excited to see what people create :)

- https://github.com/elixir-tools/next-ls/releases/tag/v0.15.0

I’ve been writing Elixir for years and I can’t even think of the last time I had a language server crash…

Plus, these days there are many alternate LSP implementations besides Elixir LS:

https://github.com/lexical-lsp/lexical

https://github.com/elixir-tools/next-ls

I have also switched to rtx, and even use it in the Next LS build pipeline as an easy way to install Elixir & OTP.

https://github.com/elixir-tools/next-ls/blob/main/.cirrus.ym...