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> Compiler speed is not some minor difference, it is absolutely massive. Build times of 30 seconds vs 2 seconds, and that is without counting the 10 seconds of

by Peaker 14y ago

> Compiler speed is not some minor difference, it is absolutely massive. Build times of 30 seconds vs 2 seconds, and that is without counting the 10 seconds of cabal resolving dependencies I simply did not play with Go to know the compilation speeds. I believe you that it is a massive difference, and it is indeed a major Go advantage. > GHC does not come with command line docs. The haddocks are available from the command line. So I don't know what this means. Hoogle is available from the command line. > GHC links in C libs dynamically Ah, I see. Did you try -optl-static? I haven't, but it might work. > GHC has nothing like this. There are tools to format Haskell code by certain conventions on hackage.

tikhonj 14y ago
This is a complete aside, but what are the good tools for formatting Haskell code? I've been using stylish-haskell, but it's somewhat limited and barfs on certain Unicode identifiers I like to use. (I should probably file a bug report for that...)
- Peaker 14y ago
  Don't know anything better than stylish-haskell, but AFAIK it fits the bullet point completely.
papsosouid 14y ago
>Hoogle is available from the command line. Hoogle is roughly the equivalent. It doesn't come with ghc though, and the rather lengthy dependency list has caused problems getting it installed before. Is there a command line only version that doesn't need all the web stuff? >Did you try -optl-static? Yeah, no such luck. It turns out go can't do this either though, so that one shouldn't have been on the list in the first place. >There are tools to format Haskell code by certain conventions on hackage. The "being included with the compiler" aspect is pretty big here. People are much more likely to format their code if they already have the tool to do it. I'm not sure what you mean by tools available on hackage though. Stylish-haskell is about it, and all it does is align and sort imports/pragmas. Gofmt can basically rewrite go code however you want it to. Sort of like if hlint were built in to stylish haskell and did the replacements instead of suggesting them.

by Peaker 14y ago

tikhonj 14y ago

This is a complete aside, but what are the good tools for formatting Haskell code? I've been using stylish-haskell, but it's somewhat limited and barfs on certain Unicode identifiers I like to use. (I should probably file a bug report for that...)

Peaker 14y ago
Don't know anything better than stylish-haskell, but AFAIK it fits the bullet point completely.

papsosouid 14y ago

>Hoogle is available from the command line. Hoogle is roughly the equivalent. It doesn't come with ghc though, and the rather lengthy dependency list has caused problems getting it installed before. Is there a command line only version that doesn't need all the web stuff? >Did you try -optl-static? Yeah, no such luck. It turns out go can't do this either though, so that one shouldn't have been on the list in the first place. >There are tools to format Haskell code by certain conventions on hackage. The "being included with the compiler" aspect is pretty big here. People are much more likely to format their code if they already have the tool to do it. I'm not sure what you mean by tools available on hackage though. Stylish-haskell is about it, and all it does is align and sort imports/pragmas. Gofmt can basically rewrite go code however you want it to. Sort of like if hlint were built in to stylish haskell and did the replacements instead of suggesting them.