Exploration and Setup Challenges for a NodeJS Developer in Elixir

The author shares their professional background of 6 years in backend engineering, predominantly working with NodeJS. Seeking a change, they become interested in Elixir due to its distinctive architecture powered by the Erlang VM. Despite their enthusiasm for the language, they face hurdles with the initial setup in their preferred IDEs, Visual Studio Code, and Neovim. The post poses questions regarding the level of support from the Elixir core team for LSP extensions and development tools. Additionally, the author seeks guidance on the recommended ways to configure a text editor for Elixir development and asks for assistance in understanding the 'Hello, World!' of Elixir setups. Comments reflect similar concerns, with one user experiencing crashes with the Elixir language server, and another suggesting resources like elixir-lsp and elixir-tools.