Adopting Elixir

Coding Standards

Every programming language has built-in idioms and practices that collectively shape the look and feel of a codebase’s structure and contents. That’s coding style. Good style is especially important to adoption because it reduces friction between developers and makes a collective codebase easier to read.

As you can imagine, some tools can help you manage many of these elements automatically. Such tools are typically divided in two categories:

• Code formatters focus on code layout concerns, such as indentation, use of spaces and newlines, line length, and the like.

• Linters focus on code quality and code structure concerns that go beyond layout, such as function and variable names.

The Elixir community embraced linters years ago ...