But the best thing about Eclipse is its feature set. Because it is a very powerful IDE there are still many knobs and dials, but they are generally in sensible places and can be understood without a manual. But recently I was forced to work with it again, and I was pleasantly surprised. It was unwieldy, incomprehensible and terribly slow to boot. Either way, there is no reason to build yet another IDE from scratch when a perfectly good option is readily available.Įclipse is one of the most popular IDEs for the imperative programming language Java, and it is also written in Java. Yi is an editor written in Haskell, but it does not qualify as a full IDE. There is Leksah (Haskell spelled backwards, missing an L), but it is still under heavy development and not yet in a really usable state. A good IDE would not only be a great time saver for seasoned Haskell developers it would also be of much assistance to newbies who want to learn the language. There is an great compiler, great libraries and a great package management system, but there is no really great IDE (Integrated Development Environment). However, I believe that the further acceptance of Haskell is held back by a lack of tooling. Although the initial effort that goes into a program may be a bit more than with more mainstream languages, these language features guarantee a certain degree of correctness that impure, dynamically typed, or imperative languages can never achieve. The language is now growing out from its origins in computer science research, as more and more people begin to realize that purity and strict typing are good things.
Of course Haskell wouldn’t be very useful if it couldn’t do all those things, but indeed it can. Hence, no modification of variables, no reading from disk, no drawing to the screen. Pure functional means that the entire program is treated as the evaluation of an expression the word pure indicates that such an expression can have no side effects. Haskell is a pure functional programming language. What is it that I intend to do, why do I intend to do it, and how? In this post, I will describe what my project is all about.
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