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> I would never complain about a language just because an IDE does not exist for it.

I think their complaint is valid, especially in light of their finding it difficult to find experienced coders who are in their salary range.

New coders can lean heavily on a good IDE to help: code completion, breakpoints, step wise debugging, one click links to the docs, easy code navigation, and more. Senior coders can and should use the editor of choice, but a great IDE makes a world of difference for a junior or even intermediate coder.



I haven't used elixir but used erlang for a while, with emacs. It did have a learning curve, but I don't think an IDE would have helped.




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