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In recent years there has been some improvement with the available tooling with the likes of rebar3[1] and just a few months ago WhatsApp released ELP (Erlang Language Platform)[2] which integrates with your IDE as a language server that provides really nice support when working with Erlang.

[1]: https://www.rebar3.org/

[2]: https://whatsapp.github.io/erlang-language-platform/

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I did not know about ELP! That’s great.

If you know Emacs, there’s a really good editor mode that’s included with Erlang. Shameless plug…I made a simple tool to make it easier to configure it…

https://github.com/dlachausse/erlmacs

I've had such a good experience with ELP, though did have some issues getting it working correctly with my emacs setup (that's probably somehow my fault). I will say though that for VSCode, it's a case of installing the extension, zero config and it just works!

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