Show notes
Keith Lazuka and AJ Alt from Microsoft share their experience writing the amazing Elm language support package for the IntelliJ family of integrated development environments.Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont.Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode!Recording date: 23 February 2019GuestsKeith Lazuka (@klazuka)AJ Alt (@ajalt on Medium)Show Notes00:00:00 Introduction00:01:37 Guest introintellij-elmelm-hot00:02:45 Project beginnings00:07:10 About IntelliJ00:08:04 Elm at Microsoft00:09:20 Writing IntelliJ plugins with Kotlin00:13:34 Parsing Elm to produce an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)00:16:22 So many features!00:18:56 Type inference00:19:55 How do you decide what features to build?00:20:44 Tidying up dead code and imports since Elm 0.1900:23:03 Supporting both Elm 0.18 and Elm 0.1900:27:25 Parsing partial Elm programs with errors00:30:38 Language servers and multi-editor support00:32:57 Saving on scrolling00:34:28 Effortless refactoring00:36:19 Extensible records00:37:43 Test-driven development & BNF grammar00:38:39 How do you split work?00:40:42 Outro



