On 30/03/2010 20:57, Mihai Maruseac wrote:
I'd like to introduce my idea for the Haskell GSOC of this year. In fact, you already know about it, since I've talked about it here on the haskell-cafe, on my blog and on reddit (even on #haskell one day).
Basically, what I'm trying to do is a new debugger for Haskell, one that would be very intuitive for beginners, a graphical one. I've given some examples and more details on my blog [0], [1], also linked on reditt and other places.
This is not the application, I'm posting this only to receive some kind of feedback before writing it. I know that it seems to be a little too ambitious but I do think that I can divide the work into sessions and finish what I'll start this summer during the next year and following.
[0]: http://pgraycode.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/haskell-project-idea/ [1]: http://pgraycode.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/visual-haskell-debugger-part-2/
Thanks for your attention,
My concerns would be: - it doesn't look like it would scale very well beyond small examples, the graphical representation would very quickly get unwieldy, unless you have some heavyweight UI stuff to make it navigable. - it's too ambitious - have you looked around to see what kind of debugging tools people are asking for? The most oft-requested feature is stack traces, and there's lots of scope for doing something there (but also many corpses littering the battlefield, so watch out!) Cheers, Simon