The Leksah (Haskell) IDE for Windows, Linux & macOS
Dear Haskell Cafe, There was the Leksah (Haskell) IDE about 10 to 12 years ago. I wonder if you chaps can bring it back for the Windows, Linux and maybe macOS platform. I have the GHCup toolchain installed after a few mistries, and set up VS Code for Haskell programming, but I still would really prefer the Leksah IDE (this time in native mode) instead. As for the macOS platform, there is a Haskell Mac for IDE that can be brought for under US$10. Lastly, why don't you allow Haskell users to subscribe to all Haskell mailing lists rather than go individaully to each one to do that. - Andrew
Andrew, I haven't used Leksah, but I think with recent vibe trends the editor factor is going to be deminishing. btw there's an Emacs plugin that allows to run Haskell ie call Haskell from Elisp and access Emacs API from Haskell. https://github.com/yaitskov/hamacs Best regards, Daniil Iaitskov On Tue, May 26, 2026, 9:46 AM Andrew Goh via Haskell-Cafe < haskell-cafe@haskell.org> wrote:
Dear Haskell Cafe,
There was the Leksah (Haskell) IDE about 10 to 12 years ago. I wonder if you chaps can bring it back for the Windows, Linux and maybe macOS platform.
I have the GHCup toolchain installed after a few mistries, and set up VS Code for Haskell programming, but I still would really prefer the Leksah IDE (this time in native mode) instead.
As for the macOS platform, there is a Haskell Mac for IDE that can be brought for under US$10.
Lastly, why don't you allow Haskell users to subscribe to all Haskell mailing lists rather than go individaully to each one to do that.
- Andrew
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"with recent vibe trends" there is an increasing amount of code with subtle defects that needs careful reading and correction. What people do with editors may shift, but the need for good editing facilities isn't going away. On Wed, 27 May 2026 at 00:53, Daniil Iaitskov <dyaitskov@gmail.com> wrote:
Andrew,
I haven't used Leksah, but I think with recent vibe trends the editor factor is going to be deminishing.
btw there's an Emacs plugin that allows to run Haskell ie call Haskell from Elisp and access Emacs API from Haskell.
https://github.com/yaitskov/hamacs
Best regards, Daniil Iaitskov
On Tue, May 26, 2026, 9:46 AM Andrew Goh via Haskell-Cafe < haskell-cafe@haskell.org> wrote:
Dear Haskell Cafe,
There was the Leksah (Haskell) IDE about 10 to 12 years ago. I wonder if you chaps can bring it back for the Windows, Linux and maybe macOS platform.
I have the GHCup toolchain installed after a few mistries, and set up VS Code for Haskell programming, but I still would really prefer the Leksah IDE (this time in native mode) instead.
As for the macOS platform, there is a Haskell Mac for IDE that can be brought for under US$10.
Lastly, why don't you allow Haskell users to subscribe to all Haskell mailing lists rather than go individaully to each one to do that.
- Andrew
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Hi Andrew, For what it's worth, most discussions have trickled over to https://discourse.haskell.org. It's web-based, but I believe there is a "mailing list mode". These Mailman-based mailing lists have always been hard to use. The feature you've asked about will certainly never exist if it doesn't already. It's off-the-shelf software, and the shelf is pretty dusty. ti 26.5.2026 klo 9.46 Andrew Goh via Haskell-Cafe <haskell-cafe@haskell.org> kirjoitti:
Dear Haskell Cafe,
There was the Leksah (Haskell) IDE about 10 to 12 years ago. I wonder if you chaps can bring it back for the Windows, Linux and maybe macOS platform.
I have the GHCup toolchain installed after a few mistries, and set up VS Code for Haskell programming, but I still would really prefer the Leksah IDE (this time in native mode) instead.
As for the macOS platform, there is a Haskell Mac for IDE that can be brought for under US$10.
Lastly, why don't you allow Haskell users to subscribe to all Haskell mailing lists rather than go individaully to each one to do that.
- Andrew
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Andrew, I think part of the problem is that it takes a lot of effort to maintain Leksah and most users prefer other editors, so more energy is being diverted to themt. I myself have been using Vim for decades now. It's really powerful, and it's available nearly everywhere (including Mac). Editors like Vim and Emacs are not going away. We might as well make the process of using them with Haskell as easy as possible. That would, IMO, be worth investing into. Ivan On Mon, 25 May 2026 at 23:46, Andrew Goh via Haskell-Cafe < haskell-cafe@haskell.org> wrote:
Dear Haskell Cafe,
There was the Leksah (Haskell) IDE about 10 to 12 years ago. I wonder if you chaps can bring it back for the Windows, Linux and maybe macOS platform.
I have the GHCup toolchain installed after a few mistries, and set up VS Code for Haskell programming, but I still would really prefer the Leksah IDE (this time in native mode) instead.
As for the macOS platform, there is a Haskell Mac for IDE that can be brought for under US$10.
Lastly, why don't you allow Haskell users to subscribe to all Haskell mailing lists rather than go individaully to each one to do that.
- Andrew
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