Elm Camp June 2023 Session Overview

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Elm Camp session about editors and IDE plugins

We talked about: How the Language Server has made amazing advancements in type inference, but unfortunately is plagued by some stability issues due to Tree Sitter (which is a shame since Tree Sitter seems like such a cool, promising technology). The Vendr folks also mentioned how the language server became too slow for their giant code base. The newer Elm Land VSCode extension, which is pretty bare bones but super fast and stable (and handles the Vendr code base). Even with its constraints…