Friday, March 30, 2012

An Eclipse plug-in for Haskell

http://eclipsefp.github.com/

I am so happy to see a looking professional IDE environment based on Eclipse for Haskell. This finally happens after more than a decade since I firstly learn about Haskell. I am really thankful for the developers!

Caveat: there is a support for debugging but seems to remain in what is offered by the text-based Haskell platform at the moment. In fact, debugging Haskell is sometimes notoriously difficult, though such a case happens rarely, due to lazy evaluation. Therefore, a good IDE will be helpful. Anyway, I am looking for more convenient debugging facilities in the EclipseFP in near future.