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Write Emacs extensions in Haskell

50 points by lelf 12y ago

cranium 12y ago
But... I want to stay with Vim! Why do you do this to me?
- davorak 12y ago
  Unless you use more esoteric feature of vim than I do the evil package does a good job of replicating the vim experience for me. I am still in the process of converting myself.
  - sigzero 12y ago
    I keep trying. I never stick with emacs.
    - rjblackman 12y ago
      someone here recommended spacemacs https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs. I get far less friction setting up emacs extensions than vim ones.
      - bzalasky 12y ago
        The modeline in spacemacs looks beautiful. I used emacs live to kickstart my latest configuration, but I'm tempted to check out spacemacs now...
iwince 12y ago
Why are there so many Haskell articles on HN? It seems like nearly every day there's one or more Haskell articles yet in the real world I've run into one guy in decades that even knew it.
- dllthomas 12y ago
  Lots of cool stuff is happening in the language, and more people are getting excited about it.
- andrewchambers 12y ago
  People love the idea of learning it. Though often give up. Just like learning foreign language.
  - dllthomas 12y ago
    Yeah, I initially decided to learn it mostly because "lazy" was not a point in the space of programming languages that I had explored.
- akg 12y ago
  "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" -- Alan Perlis It's not solely just about if it is ready for commercial/real-world applications right now. The language itself is interesting and it definitely shapes a different mode of thinking. Haskell is evolving rapidly and in interesting ways and those that are interesting in programming (as most of us here are), it's a good place to look and learn from.
  - actsasbuffoon 12y ago
    As an interesting side note, Microsoft just open sourced Bond. It's written in Haskell, and is a high performance, cross-language, schematized serialization tool. The project describes itself as widely used in many of Microsoft's high scalability services. Microsoft has many proponents and detractors on HN, but no one can deny that they have plenty of services that get lots of traffic. If Haskell is serving a critical role in many of those services, then it seems that it is ready for commercial/real-world applications.
    - akg 12y ago
      Incidentally, there is a whole conference dedicated to commercial uses of Haskell: http://cufp.org http://cufp.org
agumonkey 12y ago
Pretty lovely. Too bad archlinux GHC package is too large[1], I'd love to learn Haskell through emacs extensions. [1]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4858585/why-is-ghc-so-large-big http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4858585/why-is-ghc-so-lar... http://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1pid2r/why_is_the_ghc_package_so_big/ http://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1pid2r/why_is_the... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zp1T0M36Ze4J:web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/4noW3FnX87wEtXnKOSRL&hl=en&gl=fr&strip=1 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zp1T0M3...

50 points by lelf 12y ago

cranium 12y ago

But... I want to stay with Vim! Why do you do this to me?

davorak 12y ago
Unless you use more esoteric feature of vim than I do the evil package does a good job of replicating the vim experience for me. I am still in the process of converting myself.
- sigzero 12y ago
  I keep trying. I never stick with emacs.
  - rjblackman 12y ago
    someone here recommended spacemacs https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs. I get far less friction setting up emacs extensions than vim ones.
    - bzalasky 12y ago
      The modeline in spacemacs looks beautiful. I used emacs live to kickstart my latest configuration, but I'm tempted to check out spacemacs now...

iwince 12y ago

Why are there so many Haskell articles on HN? It seems like nearly every day there's one or more Haskell articles yet in the real world I've run into one guy in decades that even knew it.

dllthomas 12y ago
Lots of cool stuff is happening in the language, and more people are getting excited about it.
andrewchambers 12y ago
People love the idea of learning it. Though often give up. Just like learning foreign language.
- dllthomas 12y ago
  Yeah, I initially decided to learn it mostly because "lazy" was not a point in the space of programming languages that I had explored.
akg 12y ago
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" -- Alan Perlis It's not solely just about if it is ready for commercial/real-world applications right now. The language itself is interesting and it definitely shapes a different mode of thinking. Haskell is evolving rapidly and in interesting ways and those that are interesting in programming (as most of us here are), it's a good place to look and learn from.
- actsasbuffoon 12y ago
  As an interesting side note, Microsoft just open sourced Bond. It's written in Haskell, and is a high performance, cross-language, schematized serialization tool. The project describes itself as widely used in many of Microsoft's high scalability services. Microsoft has many proponents and detractors on HN, but no one can deny that they have plenty of services that get lots of traffic. If Haskell is serving a critical role in many of those services, then it seems that it is ready for commercial/real-world applications.
  - akg 12y ago
    Incidentally, there is a whole conference dedicated to commercial uses of Haskell: http://cufp.org http://cufp.org

agumonkey 12y ago

Pretty lovely. Too bad archlinux GHC package is too large[1], I'd love to learn Haskell through emacs extensions. [1]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4858585/why-is-ghc-so-large-big http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4858585/why-is-ghc-so-lar... http://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1pid2r/why_is_the_ghc_package_so_big/ http://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1pid2r/why_is_the... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zp1T0M36Ze4J:web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/4noW3FnX87wEtXnKOSRL&hl=en&gl=fr&strip=1 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zp1T0M3...