I used Elixir for a project in 2024, though I was not the lead on the backend part, so my exposure was limited. Still got a nice taste of it, and have to say I was positively impressed.

The Erlang VM is kind of amazing in the capabilities that it offers, and integrating with external languages was also easier than I thought it would be (we had a Rust core that we needed to link in).

As for Elixir specifically: the language is nice, but its Achilles heel is definitely that it’s dynamically typed. For this reason I would suggest having a look at GLEAM, even though I have no personal experience with that and don’t know how mature it is.

Narrator: Rust has indeed already proven a very valid alternative.

Heh, the name wasn’t chosen to reach a huge audience anyway. If I get too many users, I might lose my zen over trying to support them 😂

But I’m happy to have a few folks along who don’t mind building their IDE from source.

Thanks!

As for the motivation of the fork, basically two reasons:

• Even though you can disable AI features and configure the layout, the teasers and some UI elements remain as they try to draw you in.
• I want to use their UI framework and editor for a different project too, so I want to be able to start that from a trimmed down base anyway.

Hehe, I suppose it might to some extent 😅 But well, I don’t wish to control how others do their coding, and it would be silly to ignore other’s code altogether because they used a different method than the one I prefer.

Yeah, if you don’t mind the UI clutter/teasers, it doesn’t make much of a difference. For now, the most noticeable difference is that the default layout is more old-school, with the project layout and the git panel on the left-hand side again, though even without this fork you can configure it to be like that too.

Nothing wrong with them! But since I want to build another tool on top of it (for fiction/novel outlining and writing) I figured this was a good exercise to become familiar with the codebase. And since I still do some Rust development, having control over both my IDE and my writing software seemed an added benefit :)

I’ll aim to sync changes from upstream about once a month. But given that I don’t have prebuilt binaries or anything, for now I expect only people enthusiastic enough to build from source to use it :)

You must be someone who hates working from home, because home is the place where we should all feel relaxed, right? What about working in the garden? The garden is certainly a relaxation spot, but god forbid you get some rays of sunshine while you work.

I understand the desire to pity people who work at the beach. But then again, I pity anyone who ended up living near Silicon Valley. Think of all the money though!