On 2007-10-05, Peter Verswyvelen
But where is the great IDE Haskell deserves??? :-) Seriously, 99% of the programmers I know don't want to look at it because when they see Emacs or VIM, they say "what the f*ck????, I don't want to go back to the stone age". If you want to attract more people that are inside the "imperative-OO-with-nice-IDE-blob", create a great looking and functional IDE.
Bluntly, I don't see why the Haskell community needs those sorts of programmers. I like Haskell with a big enough community to have useful libraries, but a small enough community such that the language can readily evolve and serve as a useful research platform.
An IDE that integrates the existing tools. That shows you graphical pictures of the graph rewriting process,
There is a tool that does this for a Haskell dialect.
potential space leaks,
That's a hard problem.
profiling bottlenecks, etc.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean here, but people are researching good ways of profiling and presenting the results to programmers.
Heck, why not introduce pictures as symbols and values, as in DrScheme.
Or as in Mathematica 6, to be a bit more mainstream.
Or UNICODE fonts.
GHC already supports UTF-8. Vim and Emacs already support UTF-8. Done. -- Aaron Denney -><-