I know its 1. of April, but when I wrote that I started with Leksah June 1997 it was no intentional joke, it was just late at night. I started June 2007. Jürgen
jutaro wrote: > > I'm proud to announce release 0.4.4 of Leksah, the Haskell IDE written > in Haskell. > Leksahs current features include: > * On the fly error reporting with location of compilation errors > * Completion > * Import helper for constructing the import statements > * Module browser with navigation to definition > * Search for identifiers with information about types and comments > * Project management support based on Cabal with a visual editor > * Haskell customised editor with "source candy" > * Configuration with session support, keymaps and flexible panes > For further information: leksah.org > > Please don't compare what we have reached to IDE's like VisualStudio, > Eclipse or NetBeans. I started Leksah June 1997 and work on it in my > spare time for fun. I started the project for various reasons. One was > to contribute to make Haskell successful in industry, because I suffer > from the use of inappropriate programming languages like C, C++, C# or > Java in my daily job. Another was to contribute to open source, which > I'm using privately almost exclusively. The first alpha version of > Leksah was published February 2008. Since the beginning of this year > Hamish Mackenzie joined the project and merged his Funa project with > Leksah, which gave a real boost. > > I thank the people who have encouraged and helped me with their > comments, enthusiasm and support. I learned as well that the IDE issue > is a controversial theme in the community. I learned that "IDEs are big > evil nasty things", that "if you need an IDE, something is wrong with > your language", that it is scientifically proved, that "real cool > hackers will always use Emacs or vi". Most stupid I found the recurring > comment: "Every few years there is someone who starts a Haskell IDE > project and then gives up after a few years.". That will be true for > Leksah as well, if it will not be accepted and supported by the > community. The current state of Leksah is a proof of concept, that an > IDE for Haskell is not a difficult thing to do if the community supports > it and that it will in my view be of great help and will contribute > tremendously to spread Haskell. > > So I please the members of the community to pause for a moment and try > out Leksah with a benevolent attitude. > > Jürgen Nicklisch-Franken > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Announcement%3A-Beta-of-Leksah-IDE-available-tp22816032p22820084.html Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
