2024/11/06

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2024-11-06 02:51:08 +0100 <monochrom> But you should use emacs on your phone instead. >:)
2024-11-06 02:50:55 +0100 <monochrom> Oh, phone. Then I sympathize.
2024-11-06 02:50:26 +0100 <haskellbridge> <zwro> Leary: i usually do :) that's why i missed a :save command when i happened to use ghci for something quick on my phone
2024-11-06 02:49:29 +0100tabaqui(~root@91.73.194.130) (Ping timeout: 255 seconds)
2024-11-06 02:49:29 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> * foreign-store
2024-11-06 02:49:17 +0100 <Leary> zwro: Yes, so use ghcid. :)
2024-11-06 02:49:04 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> zwro: yes rapid is a good find, that's the newer thing built on top of foreign store
2024-11-06 02:48:38 +0100 <haskellbridge> <zwro> at that point you might aswell use ghcid
2024-11-06 02:48:36 +0100merijn(~merijn@128-137-045-062.dynamic.caiway.nl) (Ping timeout: 252 seconds)
2024-11-06 02:48:19 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> There's quite a few https://hackage.haskell.org/packages/search?terms=debug things, though most of them are not traditional debuggers allowing interactive stepping. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-debug-brick is the recent one I was thinking of.
2024-11-06 02:48:09 +0100 <monochrom> Not currently done but available: I'm in emacs and my ghci session is also in emacs so in principle I would save that buffer content...
2024-11-06 02:47:49 +0100Guest7(~Guest7@syn-172-249-181-078.res.spectrum.com)
2024-11-06 02:47:16 +0100 <monochrom> By creating a "play.hs" file that has all the experimental expressions I want to try out in a session.
2024-11-06 02:46:10 +0100 <haskellbridge> <zwro> how do you save a ghci session with your editor?
2024-11-06 02:44:57 +0100 <monochrom> Right exactly. I wouldn't change editors just for the language. So I wouldn't need a "save" button in the language's REPL either. My favourite editor already has one.
2024-11-06 02:44:18 +0100 <haskellbridge> <zwro> sm: the "plus a capable editor" was implied in my question
2024-11-06 02:44:14 +0100merijn(~merijn@128-137-045-062.dynamic.caiway.nl) merijn
2024-11-06 02:43:07 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> a language server is a small internal component that lets IDEs communicate with the language tools
2024-11-06 02:43:04 +0100 <monochrom> I talked about lacking a soul, but when you do have a soul, it needs a body too...
2024-11-06 02:42:58 +0100 <haskellbridge> <zwro> I don't think people like changing editors just for the language
2024-11-06 02:42:31 +0100 <monochrom> A face? :)
2024-11-06 02:42:18 +0100 <haskellbridge> <zwro> what can an IDE provide that a language server can't?
2024-11-06 02:41:54 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> I did see a more recent brick based debugger ui. I'd find it, if hackage wasn't down just now
2024-11-06 02:41:26 +0100 <monochrom> The cartoon? Yes I always link to it to rub it into people's faces.
2024-11-06 02:41:14 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> monochrom: I think those things prove that packaging and integration are also necessary.. so all of those are dead.. except the debugger built in to GHCI, which works perfectly (or anyway, works)
2024-11-06 02:39:52 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> wait, didn't I see that already...
2024-11-06 02:39:41 +0100 <monochrom> Oh it's an extreme case of the 80-20 rule. Or at this extreme it's like a 99.99-0.01 rule. Hat, Buddha, GHCi, and that plug in prove that prototyping a Haskell debugger is easy, sure, and at the same time by their incompleteness and even bitrot, also prove that actually covering all of Haskell is way too annoying for anyone to finish it.
2024-11-06 02:38:45 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> someone could whip that up in brick
2024-11-06 02:36:19 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> It doesn't seem _that_ hard. GHCI already has the core of it, and https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=phoityne.phoityne-vscode is an example of a UI on top
2024-11-06 02:36:00 +0100 <monochrom> OTOH, a nice IDE that lacks debugging feels like lacking a soul.
2024-11-06 02:35:30 +0100 <monochrom> Debugger is extremely hard. I don't really complain about lacking it.
2024-11-06 02:34:51 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> * UI though, that's what I'm thinking of particularly
2024-11-06 02:34:26 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> Not a debugger thought
2024-11-06 02:34:23 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> Ok. That IDE was good as I recall ! Lots of people had a beef with FP Complete so it had an uphill path.
2024-11-06 02:33:11 +0100 <monochrom> IIRC the company is precisely FPComplete.
2024-11-06 02:33:05 +0100merijn(~merijn@128-137-045-062.dynamic.caiway.nl) (Ping timeout: 252 seconds)
2024-11-06 02:32:19 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> I think in this cartoon, something is missing from the company's offering. We just don't know what it is :)
2024-11-06 02:30:36 +0100 <monochrom> https://ro-che.info/ccc/26
2024-11-06 02:29:18 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> a built in cheaper just works ui could help build the foundation
2024-11-06 02:28:12 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> I have got the VS Code debugger extension working once, and it was so fragile and little known that pretty much no-one else will
2024-11-06 02:26:47 +0100xff0x(~xff0x@fsb6a9491c.tkyc517.ap.nuro.jp)
2024-11-06 02:26:43 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> I promise you this one would
2024-11-06 02:26:29 +0100CoolMa7(~CoolMa7@ip5f5b8957.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de) (Ping timeout: 252 seconds)
2024-11-06 02:26:26 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> and sometimes a monolithic just works out of box tool is the only thing that'll get used
2024-11-06 02:26:12 +0100merijn(~merijn@128-137-045-062.dynamic.caiway.nl) merijn
2024-11-06 02:25:51 +0100 <monochrom> In practice, that doesn't happen often enough in the Haskell community. Look at how GHCi debugger has not received any further work, and how HLS still doesn't have any debugger. Even the GHCup effort is wearing thin and the guy is complaining: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/priorities-for-upcoming-ghc-releases/9605/60
2024-11-06 02:25:50 +0100postcerebral(~postcereb@user/postcerebral) (Quit: WeeChat 4.4.2)
2024-11-06 02:25:15 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> or anyway, _a_ way
2024-11-06 02:24:54 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> I could imagine integrating an already-maintained TUI editor (yi ?) could also be the way to improve GHCI's debugger, because a more visual UI is what it needs
2024-11-06 02:24:50 +0100 <zero> which wraps it "nicely"