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

[Branimir Maksimovic]

I am pretty sure they all work iwth utf-8 files...

Greets, Branimir.

On 1.12.20. 3:06 пре подне, Mig Mit wrote:
> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On 2020. Dec 1., at 2:02, MarLinn <monkleyon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>> 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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