error-messages VS hlint

Compare error-messages vs hlint and see what are their differences.

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error-messages

Posts with mentions or reviews of error-messages. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-27.
  • Why did GHC go from "occurs check failed" to talking about rigid type variables?
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 27 Apr 2023
    The GHC issue tracker or the error message improvement repo are two such places to get clarification (and potentially improve the message even if it turns out to be technically correct).
  • What prevents Haskell from having good error messages?
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 27 Oct 2022
    I don't think the resolved issues are actually ones about error messages. They largely seem to be meta issues about the project. As far as I know nothing that project has done has made it into a released GHC yet, but GHC 9.6 will have unique error codes for each error pointing to an entry on https://errors.haskell.org/. Both the codes and the website are achievements of that project, specifically under its error-messages-index incarnation. If you'd like to contribute you may like to read https://github.com/haskellfoundation/error-message-index/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md or post a message introducing yourself on https://github.com/haskell/error-messages/issues/new.
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 27 Oct 2022
    Note that the Num literal issue is tracked here and there seems to be a good suggestion to fix it: https://github.com/haskell/error-messages/issues/5#issuecomment-1040788806
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 27 Oct 2022
    You don't offer any suggestions to improve that error message, but it looks like this case is being discussed here if you have ideas: https://github.com/haskell/error-messages/issues/30
  • Was simplified subsumption worth it for industry Haskell programmers?
    6 projects | /r/haskell | 6 May 2022
    The error message is at the least very unhelpful. Please report it on https://github.com/haskell/error-messages/issues/new
  • Haskell Error Messages: Come on!
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 16 Feb 2022
    Do check out https://github.com/haskell/error-messages. We have a related discussion here: https://github.com/haskell/error-messages/issues/5, but I think perhaps a separate issue for this case would be good to have.
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 16 Feb 2022
    Haskell's error messages truly need improvement. There seems to be a great effort to do just during the last few years though. The haskell/error-messages repo is compiling a list of bad error messages that will hopefully be improved with time. Maybe we'll get error messages almost as friendly as rust's some day
  • Did you ever actually intend to use TemplateHaskell, when this error appeared?
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 7 Sep 2021
    You should report it, here is an issue tracker for unhelpful error messages https://github.com/haskell/error-messages/issues/new
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 7 Sep 2021

hlint

Posts with mentions or reviews of hlint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing error-messages and hlint you can also consider the following projects:

ormolu - A formatter for Haskell source code

hadolint - Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

ghcid - Very low feature GHCi based IDE

haskell-language-server - Official haskell ide support via language server (LSP). Successor of ghcide & haskell-ide-engine.

bisect-binary - Tool to determine relevant parts of binary data

haskell-lsp - Haskell library for the Microsoft Language Server Protocol

nixfmt - The soon-to-be official formatter for Nix code

ihaskell - A Haskell kernel for the Jupyter project.

leksah - Haskell IDE

fay - A proper subset of Haskell that compiles to JavaScript

bumper - Haskell tool to automatically bump package versions transitively.

stan - 🕵️ Haskell STatic ANalyser