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

[Mig Mit]

Please DO store code as ascii text. At the very least that would allow the use of external tools — sed, diff, git, whatever. Non-ascii representations were tried multiple times, and largely failed, in particular because of terrible interaction with other tools.

Also, please make sure your IDE is a good text editor. Because that's what the code is — not AST, but text. Until it is finished (to a certain lax definition of "finished") it is likely to not even be representable in AST form.

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> On 2020. Dec 1., at 2:02, MarLinn <monkleyon at gmail.com> wrote:
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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.
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> Maybe don't even store the code as ascii text.
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