macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install elixir-lslocal Homebrew formula metadata
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Install elixir-ls with Homebrew, scoop
Language Server and Debugger for Elixir. Version 0.31.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-11. Also installable with scoop: scoop install main/elixir-ls.
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Windows
Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install main/elixir-lsScoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/elixir-ls.json · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
Language Server and Debugger for Elixir
Project links
Commands and aliases
- elixir-debug-adapter
- elixir-ls
history
Project history and usage
ElixirLS is the long-running Elixir language-server and debug-adapter package. It provides editor-independent code intelligence for Elixir Mix projects through the Language Server Protocol and step-through debugging through the Debug Adapter Protocol.
Project history
The official Elixir language-server announcement describes the first Elixir LSP implementation as started by Jake Becker in 2017 alongside a Visual Studio Code implementation. It relied on ElixirSense for extracting language intelligence, then grew as LSP adoption grew across editors.
The same announcement says the implementation later moved into its own GitHub organization, with maintenance passing to Lukasz Samson and Jason Axelson. By 2024, the Elixir project announced an official Language Server team and described a path toward unifying ideas from ElixirLS, Lexical, and Next LS into shared code-intelligence infrastructure.
Adoption history
ElixirLS became important because LSP turned editor integration from one-off plugins into a standard server/client contract. The Elixir project notes that, as LSP adoption grew, Elixir's implementation became the main way many Elixir users interacted with the language from their editors.
How it is used
In package-manager terms, ElixirLS is installed next to Elixir and started by an editor or plugin against a Mix project. The server runs in the background to provide diagnostics, completion, navigation, and other language intelligence; the bundled debug adapter is used by clients that speak the VS Code Debug Protocol.
Why package nerds care
ElixirLS matters to package nerds because it packages editor intelligence as a standalone executable instead of baking it into one editor extension. That makes it a natural Homebrew/Scoop-style developer-tool package and a compatibility pressure point whenever Elixir, Erlang/OTP, Mix, or the LSP/DAP specifications move.
Timeline
- 2017: First Elixir LSP implementation started alongside Visual Studio Code support.
- 2017: Early ElixirLS changelog entries record Windows support and packaging changes for easier installs.
- 2024: The Elixir project announced an official Language Server team and described ElixirLS as the most complete and widely functional implementation among the existing options.
- 2026: ElixirLS 0.31 releases added support for Elixir 1.20 and OTP 29.
Related projects
- ElixirSense supplies language-intelligence extraction used by ElixirLS.
- Lexical and Next LS are sibling Elixir language-server efforts discussed by the Elixir project in the 2024 official language-server announcement.
- Expert is the newer official language-server effort mentioned by the Elixir project as the follow-on unification work.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: red
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. escape, surveillance, or offensive capability signal.
Risk classifier
red risk · medium confidence · escape-surveillance-offensive
Why
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- escape, surveillance, or offensive capability signal
Signals
- text:debugger
- text:server
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
elixir-debug-adapter | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
elixir-ls | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.31.1
manager updated2026-06-11
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:elixir-ls |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.31.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://elixir-lsp.github.io/elixir-ls |
| Repository | https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls |
| Last updated | 2026-06-11T00:12:44Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Scoop95%
main/elixir-ls
scoop install main/elixir-ls- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Elixir Ls
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation