From: Christopher Done
I haven't used ghc-mod enough to have a crash happen to me. I couldn't get it to work the times I'd tried it and others make this complaint. Whereas GHCi works for everyone!
I didn't mean ghc-mod specifically. I was wondering which projects caused this problem for you (or others) when using ghc-server (or something else) as I'd like to try if it happens with ghc-mod too.
Herbert doesn't have time to hack on it, but was encouraging about continuing with ghci-ng.
Yeah I saw that conversation on IRC.
I'm thinking to try forward-porting ghci-ng to GHC 7.8, or otherwise extracting GHC 7.8's GHCi again and then backporting it to 7.6. (Under the assumption that current + past is a reasonable number of GHCs to support.) I'm going to experiment with the JSON interface and I'll report back with results.
Cool :) --Daniel