[liampulles]

I'm now working on a real world legacy Elixir project in my day job and man oh man do I miss well defined types. Coming from Go, it makes a huge difference to my productivity when I'm able to click through fields and find usages of things, which comes down to the excellence of the Go language server. I know that the Elixir language server can infer some of this, but the language server in my experience is very fickle and flat out doesn't work if you have an older Elixir project.

I'm paying keen attention to Gleam to see if it can provide a robust development experience in this way, in the longer term.

[mercer]

Do the big updates to Elixir's type system help at all? afaik the most recent update added a huge amount of coverage that should extend to older code automatically.

[liampulles]

I don't want to go into details of my work project too much, but the fundamental issue is that ElixirLS only supports 1.12+ (at least last time I checked).