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Language Server and Debugger for Elixir. Version 0.31.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-11.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install elixir-ls

local Homebrew formula metadata

Windows

Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install main/elixir-ls

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/elixir-ls.json · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Language Server and Debugger for Elixir

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.

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 post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 1 platform targets.
  • Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.

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

CommandKindExposureNote
elixir-debug-adaptercliglobal executable
elixir-lscliglobal executable

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 generated2026-07-08
manager version0.31.1
manager updated2026-06-11
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.31.1

https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:elixir-ls
Version0.31.1
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/elixir-ls
Homepagehttps://elixir-lsp.github.io/elixir-ls
Repositoryhttps://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls
Upstream docshttps://elixir-lsp.github.io/elixir-ls
LicenseApache-2.0
Source archivehttps://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/archive/refs/tags/v0.31.1.tar.gz
Last updated2026-06-11T00:12:44Z
Pulseupdated
Dependencieselixir
Bottleavailable (on all)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameelixir-ls
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

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
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/elixir-ls.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • elixirRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • expertShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, elixir, language-server, lsp.
  • ansible-language-serverShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp.
  • bash-language-serverShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp.
  • clojure-lspShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp.
  • codebook-lspShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp.
  • crystallineShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp.

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.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment