Boost your productivity with the Erlang Language Server

TALK LEVEL: BEGINNER / INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED

Implementing features such as auto-complete or go-to-definition for a programming language is not trivial. Traditionally, this work had to be repeated for each development tool and it required a mix of expertise in both the targeted programming language and the programming language internally used by the development tool of choice.

A brilliant intuition, the "Language Server Protocol" (LSP), changes the rules of the game. A real blessing for the Erlang community.

THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS

Language Server

IDE

Productivity

OBJECTIVES

• Clarify what a language server is
• Present the challenges around implementing a language server
• Discuss the Erlang LS architecture
• Get users!
• Get contributors!
• Inspire the Erlang Community to create tools

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Anyone who feels the Erlang Community is lacking tools and IDEs
• Developers who want to boost their Erlang productivity
• People who want to understand more about language servers
• Authors of tools which they believe should be utilized more by the Erlang Community