How to Install hdevtools in Ubuntu 18.04



Install hdevtools by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install hdevtools

Description:

GHC powered daemon for fast Haskell development

hdevtools is a backend for text editor plugins, to allow for things such as syntax and type checking of Haskell code, and retrieving type information, all directly from within your text editor. . The advantage that hdevtools has over ghc-mod is that it runs silently in a persistent background process, and therefore is able to keeps all of your Haskell modules and dependent libraries loaded in memory. This way, when you change only a single source file, only it needs to be reloaded and rechecked, instead of having to reload everything. . This makes hdevtools very fast for checking syntax and type errors (runs just as fast as the ":reload" command in GHCi). . In fact, syntax and type checking is so fast, that you can safely enable auto checking on every save. Even for huge projects, checking is nearly instant. . In addition to checking Haskell source code for errors, `hdevtools` has tools for getting info about identifiers, and getting type information for snippets of code.

Homepage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hdevtools

Version: 0.1.6.1-1

Section: universe/devel