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If you feel like messing around with Haskell again for an afternoon then install VSCode with ghcide (and a syntax highlighting plugin ofc). You might get surprised ;)

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Are you using that? Doing Haskell on vscode has been a painful experience for me.

Yep, all my team has switched to VSCode+ghcide and so far we're in love with it. Mind you ghcide is brand new, so this luxury of having a 21st century Haskell IDE did not exists even just a few months ago. Before we used ghcid with whichever editor (eg. Vim/Emacs/VSCode).

Have you written up a blog post about this? I think it would be really useful!

Thanks, I'll switch to it now based on your recommendation. Desperately want a decent Haskell editing setup, the bad tooling is killing my productivity and making me consider quitting Haskell.

Edit: Ok so I tried it. Template Haskell seems to break it, which my projects use heavily. And does not even report syntax errors in some files. Seems like yet another dead end for me as an editor setup, unfortunately.

Ah yes TH. That’s imho the last biggie in the way of total awesomeness. See this ticket: https://github.com/digital-asset/ghcide/issues/34

Got it, I'll keep an eye on this. Thanks for this recommendation!

Agreed! For years I used Emacs with various Haskell tools, but after I tried VSCODE and ghcide, that is almost all I use anymore.

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