I feel this might have grown beyond its title.
Picking the point where I gave up, giving me a list of 7 vscode plugins, without any guidance as to which are more mature, doesnt feel like a thing anyone would wish to know before they start.
Picking the point where I gave up, giving me a list of 7 vscode plugins, without any guidance as to which are more mature, doesnt feel like a thing anyone would wish to know before they start.
Take it from someone who spent 10 years on and off learning Haskell: It's a guide to navigating the boobytrapped minefield of the Haskell ecosystem, from the difficulties of installing it for the first time, to the confusing type theory.
Those aren't 7 plugins to choose from. Those are 7 plugins you should use all 7 of because there is no unified coherent Haskell IDE or plugin, but there are a dozen other broken ones that look good in the catalog.
Much the same with libraries. You need a guide to tell you which ones are usable and which are abandoned experiments, since both live side by side in the main repos.
It is under active development and is the closest you can get to a "unified coherent Haskell plugin" - it comes with all the features you would get from installing the 7 plugins individually.
We've come a really long way in just the past 3 years with IDE stuff. I suggest you give it another try if you're still interested in diving into Haskell.
To me at least, “things I wish I knew” implies it’s some sort of companion to a real language guide/tutorial/book, not a replacement for one.
Properly setting up HIE was a bit of a mission:
https://github.com/hmemcpy/haskell-hie-devcontainer
This should be the #1 recommendation to anyone looking to get started IMO, it cleanly sets everything up for you and extracts it into an isolated development container.