When working with Elixir, I want the following support from my editor: Elixir syntax highlighting Compiler errors and warnings displayed while I’m editing Elixir code Automatic Elixir code formatting Automatic Dialyzer checking and reporting when I save an Elixir code file These are the following plugins that provide those features: language-elixir ide-elixir atom-elixir-formatter linter-elixir-credo Before installing any of these packages, read their README pages carefully.

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As developers know, program source code is represented as lines of text. The Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) is the representation of the source code as a hierarchical data graph, specifically a tree structure. With an AST, much of the difficult work parsing the original source code has been performed, and the syntax can be introspected programatically. Similar to an AST, the Abstract Semantic Graph (ASG) is a graph of the semantic representation of the source code.

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