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There is editor tooling, you can look at intero or dante for that. It works. My point is as a beginner, it is added friction when the focus should be on learnin
by platz 9y ago
There is editor tooling, you can look at intero or dante for that. It works. My point is as a beginner, it is added friction when the focus should be on learning how to use the repl and the language. If you absolutely require an IDE, Haskell is probably not going to be your favorite language.
- twic 9y agoI make the same recommendation for people learning Java, and Java has the best IDE support there is. The fact is that an IDE is a large and complex tool with a lot of details to understand, and jt will sap mental energy that is needed for dealing with the new language. When starting out, pick a common programmer's editor you already know, find a syntax highlighter for it, and turn on auto-indentation. If there's a plugin or tool which does auto-formatting and doesn't need a lot of tweaking, add that too. Learn an IDE once you understand the language and are getting frustrated by boilerplate, navigation, etc.