[Haskell-cafe] What features should an (fictitious) IDE for Haskell have?

[Gregory Guthrie]

Sem like there are *many* standard examples around, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Netbeans, etc.

Are there specific reasons that a Haskell IDE would be different in features??

Is there something lacking in use of (say) the standard IntelliJ IDE for Haskell?


Dr. Gregory Guthrie
Maharishi International University
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Most importantly: A good IDE is not a text editor, but an AST editor. If the AST happens to be presented as text, that's a choice of visualisation, nothing more. Better to start with a graph-like visualisation to free the mind, then think through the possible interactions. Maybe add the typical text-like visualisation later. But don't start there or you'll just re-invent notepad for the nth time.

Maybe don't even store the code as ascii text.

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