Hi Peter,
There is a Dotnet tree in the Hugs source code files, which I believe
is what supports dotnet. As far as I am aware, it probably won't work.
A windows developer may be able to build it, but I've never tried.
You might also be interested to know that Yhc supports --dotnet to
generate a dotnet binary. I think it can FFI call the dotnet
framework, but I'm not sure.
IDE's are hard, and only Microsoft does them right - perhaps one day
if Haskell becomes popular enough we'll get something.
Thanks
Neil
On 10/3/07, Peter Verswyvelen
In the (Win)Hugs documentation, I found
"Only the ccall, stdcall and dotnet calling conventions are supported. All others are flagged as errors."
However, I fail to find any more information on how to invoke dotnet methods. This might be really handy for me, as I'm very familiar with the dotnet framework.
For example, yesterday I rewrote and extended a program that I wanted to develop in Haskell in just 3 hours using dotnet, while I spend weeks trying do this in Haskell. Of course, I'm a Haskell newbie and a dotnet expert, so this is not a fair comparison. However, I got a strange feeling, which I want to share with you :) First of all, it was a *horrible* experience to program C# again; I needed to type at least 3 times the amount of code, much of which was boilerplate code, and the code is not elegant. Haskell really changed my point of view on this; before I knew Haskell, I found C# (I'm talking C# 3.0 here) a really neat and nice language. On the other hand, the great Visual Studio IDE and Resharper addin made it at least 3 times faster to type, navigate, refactor, and debug the code... Somehow, I get things done really really really fast in C#, albeit in an "ugly" way. Once again, I just wish Haskell had such an IDE... And yes, I know of the existance of Visual Haskell, EclipseFP, Haskell Mode for Emacs (which I'm using), VIM, YI, but still, these do not compare with the experience I have when using Visual Studio/Resharper (or Eclipse or IntelliJ/IDEA for Java). But that might just be me of course...
A slightly frustrated Peter ;-)
BTW: I don't want to bring up the IDE discussion again, no really ;-)
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