[Haskell-cafe] IDE?

[peterv]

Well, if I was 15 again and had no RSI in both arms, I certainly would
create a basic IDE as my first Haskell project, it would be fun ;) I've
looked at the code of Visual Haskell, but I'm not (yet/ever?) capable of
enhancing it (the Haskell part, the COM/C++ part is a lot easier for me). So
it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem. To adapt existing code for getting
a better editor, I need to learn Haskell. To really learn Haskell, I need to
start typing and doing concrete projects, but I want to type as less as
possible, so I need a good IDE. Furthermore, because of my RSI, I see my
future in teaching and not coding. And it will remain a hobby project,
because I'm not able to convince my colleagues to switch to Haskell, mostly
because it has no production-stable .NET backend and Visual Studio
integration (yet, I know its work in progress)

Anyway, I'll start with emacs again, maybe I see the light this time ;)

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Peyton-Jones [mailto:simonpj at microsoft.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 11:46
To: Peter Verswyvelen; haskell-cafe at haskell.org
Subject: RE: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] IDE?


| L-System using HOpenGL), from what I've read Haskell is indeed much better
than typical OO
| languages... So it *deserves* an easy entry level IDE that will get many
many more people started with
| it.

I think you are right about that.  Still, I hope this problem may in time
fix itself: the Haskell community will grow to the point where there enough
people like you who *want* such an IDE, that among their ranks will be some
who feel able to *build* it.  (I quite understand that you do not.)  The
Haskell community has historically been somewhat oriented towards emacs and
Unix, but if Haskell is to succeed in becoming more of a mainstream
language, it need to jump the cultural gap over to the (much larger) IDE and
Windows community.

Presumably Visual Studio or Eclipse are the right places to start, and there
are prototype Haskell IDEs for both, even if they are not ready for
production use.

plenty of opportunities here!

Simon

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