Elixir-tools Update Vol. 2: New Features and Under the Hood Changes

2023/08/14

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The elixir-tools Update Vol. 2 brings exciting new features and under the hood changes to the Elixir development environment. The update starts by thanking the first two corporate sponsors, Qdentity and NFI Integrated Logistics, for their support. The update introduces Next LS, which has had a tremendous month with new features. Developers can now add more folders to their workspace in editors like Visual Studio Code, triggering 'Find References' on a reference or a function/module definition, and seeing all the places it is referenced. Next LS is now distributed as a binary executable using Burrito, making it easier to use and update. The update also highlights an under the hood change, where the symbol table is now powered by SQLite3 via the exqlite package. This change has made contributing easier and faster, as demonstrated by the new 'Find References' feature. The update concludes by mentioning upcoming features, including the Credo extension for integration with the Credo library.