Experience report: building an eclipse-based IDE for Haskell

This paper summarizes experiences from an open source project that builds a free Haskell IDE based on Eclipse (an open source IDE platform). Eclipse is extensible and has proved to be a good basis for IDEs for several programming languages. Difficulties arise mainly because it is written in Java and requires extensions to be written in Java. This made it hard to reuse existing development tools implemented in Haskell, and turned out to be a considerable obstacle to finding contributors. Several approaches to resolve these issues are described and their advantages and disadvantages discussed.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICFP
• Authors: Leif Frenzel
• Keywords: Free Haskell Ide, ICFP 2007, Open Source Ide, Open Source Project, Programming Languages