Re:Go is boring
by tikhonj on Friday July 27, 2012 @03:00AM
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I think GHC does something like that. At the very least, it exposes an API that lets you do all sorts of fun things. There are projects like Scion[1] that let you integrate that into an editor.
However, there is simply less drive to develop tooling like that for Haskell than there is for Java. Haskell is a much easier language to use given just a moderately intelligent text editor and a REPL than most others. Java, on the other hand, it verbose and annoying even with a very good IDE.
So Haskell can have good support, but since it isn't terribly necessary it isn't anything like a top priority.
[1]: https://github.com/nominolo/scion/
However, there is simply less drive to develop tooling like that for Haskell than there is for Java. Haskell is a much easier language to use given just a moderately intelligent text editor and a REPL than most others. Java, on the other hand, it verbose and annoying even with a very good IDE.
So Haskell can have good support, but since it isn't terribly necessary it isn't anything like a top priority.