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% ghcmodHappyHaskellProgram-Dg.tex
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\begin{hcarentry}[updated]{ghc-mod --- Happy Haskell Programming}
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\report{Daniel Gr\"ober}%05/15
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\status{open source, actively developed}
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\makeheader
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\texttt{ghc-mod} is both a backend program for enhancing editors and other kinds
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of development environments with support for Haskell, and an Emacs package
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providing the user facing functionality, internally called \texttt{ghc} for
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historical reasons. Other people have also developed numerous front ends for Vim
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and there also exist some for Atom and a few other proprietary editors.
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After a period of declining activity, development has been picking up pace again
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since Daniel Gr\"ober took over as maintainer. Most changes during versions
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5.0.0--5.2.1.2 consisted only of fixes and internal cleanup work, but for the
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past four months, vastly improved Cabal support has been in the works and is now
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starting to stabilize.
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This work is a major step forward in terms of how well ghc-mod's suggestions
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reflect what \texttt{cabal build} would report, and should also allow ghc-mod's
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other features to work even in more complicated Cabal setups.
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Daniel Gr\"ober has been accepted for a summer internship at IIJ Innovation
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Institute's Research Laboratory working on \texttt{ghc-mod} for two months
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(August--September). He will be working on:
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\begin{compactitem}
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\item adding GHCi-like interactive code execution, to bring \texttt{ghc-mod} up
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to feature parity with GHCi and beyond,
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\item investigating how to best cooperate with \texttt{ide-backend},
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\item adding a network interface to make using ghc-mod in other projects
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easier, and
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\item if time allows, cleaning up the Emacs frontend to be more user-friendly
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and in line with Emacs' conventions.
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\end{compactitem}
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The goal of this work is to make \texttt{ghc-mod} the obvious choice for anyone
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implementing Haskell support for a development environment and improving
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\texttt{ghc-mod}'s overall feature set and reliability in order to give new as
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well as experienced Haskell developers the best possible experience.
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Right now \texttt{ghc-mod} has only one core developer and only a handful of
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occasional drive-by contributors. If \textit{you} want to help make Haskell
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development even more fun come and join us!
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\FurtherReading
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\url{https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/ghc-mod}
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\end{hcarentry}
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