What's a good IDE for Erlang programming?

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Blake picture Blake · Jul 16, 2009 · Viewed 53.2k times · Source

As far as I know there's Erlang plugin for NetBeans and Eclipse. Which one has the upper hand at the moment?

Are there any other IDE for Erlang which I didnt mention, and how good are they when compare with NetBeans and Eclipse?

Answer

ignatov picture ignatov · Jul 26, 2012

Erlang plugin for IntelliJ IDEA provides some features for Erlang code editing and navigation:

  • Syntax and errors highlighting
  • References resolving
  • Code completion for functions, records, variables, macroses and keywords
  • Rename refactoring for modules, functions, records, macroses and variables
  • Safe delete refactoring
  • Structure view and Find usages
  • Code formatter
  • Compilation and running
  • Eunit test runner
  • Dialyzer integration
  • Snippets (Live Templates)
  • Quick-fixes
  • Rebar integration
  • Emacs-based code formatting action
  • Erlang shell console
  • Debugger
  • Extract variable and function refactorings

The plugins is free and open sourced: http://ignatov.github.io/intellij-erlang.

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