ghcid VS parinfer-rust

Compare ghcid vs parinfer-rust and see what are their differences.

ghcid

Very low feature GHCi based IDE (by ndmitchell)
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ghcid parinfer-rust
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1,120 513
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4.0 1.9
about 2 months ago 23 days ago
Haskell Rust
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License ISC License
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ghcid

Posts with mentions or reviews of ghcid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-08.
  • Anyone know the best way to use haskell for arch linux?
    1 project | /r/haskell | 16 Aug 2023
    You can use ghcid. It compiles the code, and shows if there are any errors as you save your file. Have two terminals. One for editing your file...other one with ghcid ($ ghcid path/to/filename.hs). Right click on the ghcid terminal and click `always on top`. That way, It will be always visible as you are typing and saving code.
  • Static-ls - a low memory Haskell language server based on hiedb and hiefiles
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 8 Apr 2023
    With a combination of ghcid, an hiedb filewatcher and the -fdefer-type-errors flag you can get pretty solid IDE behavior. Currently only ghc 9.4.4 is supported but happy to personally help people set this up if interested!
  • What's the best Editor+Tests experience we can get with Haskell?
    1 project | /r/haskell | 21 Sep 2022
    With an editor integration, you could rig it up to where you could right-click on a Spec, choose "Run spec" from a context menu, and have your editor add that comment to and save dev.hs. Another editor integration could read and parse the contents of ghcid.txt. We have this already for the compiler output, but it doesn't yet parse the test output. But sans an editor integration, you will still see the test output in the console where Ghcid is running.
  • What's the best way to use a REPL for TDD?
    1 project | /r/haskell | 7 Feb 2022
    Sounds like you want ghcid. You can use it run tests on a successful build, and it will watch files in your project and quick-rebuild when there are changes. There shouldn't be any need to modify your Cabal files or test dependencies.
  • Open source projects for beginners
    7 projects | /r/haskell | 24 Jan 2022
  • TDD for AoC?
    2 projects | /r/adventofcode | 18 Dec 2021
    In addition, for Haskell, I usually have ghcid running, which likewise re-runs on every file change, but gives faster feedback about any type errors than the full compiler, and also is configured to evaluate
  • Automatically reloading ghci when a file changes
    1 project | /r/haskell | 25 Jul 2021
    Have you looked into ghcid? https://github.com/ndmitchell/ghcid
  • Most braindead easy end to end haskell workflow?
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 23 Jul 2021
    VS Code + Haskell extension is usually best, but ghcid is an alternative which is much simpler, easier to set up, less pretty and powerful but still pretty easy and effective to use. Here's a workflow:
  • How to cabal?
    1 project | /r/haskellquestions | 4 Apr 2021
    In general, though, I recommend just looking at the cabal files for various libraries and executables. Something like ghcid is good, since it contains a library, an executable, and a test suite.
  • Fast way to run Haskell script from nvim?
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 1 Mar 2021
    you should also checkout the ghci vim plugin https://github.com/ndmitchell/ghcid/tree/master/plugins/nvim

parinfer-rust

Posts with mentions or reviews of parinfer-rust. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-23.
  • neovim plugins that have improved your workflow
    20 projects | /r/neovim | 23 Oct 2022
    parinfer-rust, while LISP only for reasons, is still absolutely amazing overall for its performance compared to the Lua version. I do wish there were more bracketing/scope algorithms out there for other languages. With a parinfer plugin, you only need to start a bracket for it to close what it believes is your scope. Great for enclosing things in functions
  • Why is parinfer not as good as I think it is?
    1 project | /r/Clojure | 11 Aug 2022
    While my main daily driver is also IntelliJ, and also for Parinfer, I have found that Neovim + Rust-parinfer works remarkably well.
  • Why Rust ?
    7 projects | /r/neovim | 31 Jul 2022
    Another example where rust's benefits show is something like parfiner. Currently I'm using my own ffi interface to https://github.com/eraserhd/parinfer-rust, and it feels significantly faster than the plain-lua version I had before. Getting to write the whole thing in rust just makes life easier and simpler
  • paredit.vim – Paredit Mode: Structured Editing of Lisp S-Expressions
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2022
  • Lisp programming configuration for neovim
    9 projects | /r/neovim | 4 Jul 2022
    I use a combination of parinfer-rust and Conjure for my Clojure, Janet, and Fennel development.
  • Can vim become an emacs or is it already one or not?
    6 projects | /r/emacs | 10 May 2022
    My personal configuration is also written in fennel if you would like to take. look: https://github.com/shaunsingh/nyoom.nvim. Neovim's come a long way in what you can do with it. Fennel has a macro system as with any lisp, so you can make the syntax feel right at home with emacs https://github.com/shaunsingh/nyoom.nvim/tree/main/fnl/macros. You can even create dynamic-module like integrations with rust programs (see https://github.com/shaunsingh/nyoom.nvim/blob/main/fnl/parinfer/init.fnl, interacting with https://github.com/eraserhd/parinfer-rust/tree/master/src)
  • What are your must-have vim/nvim extensions?
    53 projects | /r/vim | 9 May 2022
    eraserhd/parinfer-rust if you do any sort of Lisp programming
  • Why Clojure in a single Orgpad diagram
    1 project | /r/Clojure | 28 Dec 2021
    Clojure is an amazing language, and so is Rust. In fact, I think learning both of them is a wonderful way to introduce ourselves to such a broad range of programming ideas that it covers over half of the seven programing ur-languages. It's even worth investigating the differences in the way these languages have developed over time (Clojure being Rich's project and Rust taking a community approach). These ideas aren't in opposition to each other. If they were, the indispensable editor plugin I use to write Clojure wouldn't exist for crying out loud.
  • Parinfer fans wanted
    3 projects | /r/Clojure | 19 Nov 2021
    Have you seen an excellent parinfer-rust implementation of Parinfer? It's quite fast and can be integrated with other editors, like Emacs, Kakoune, Vim, etc. I think you can try to see if your integration passes their tests.
  • Changing shift-left-right Behavior in Lisp Mode
    1 project | /r/vim | 7 Sep 2021
    I am currently using parinfer. It’s not exactly minimal, but it doesn’t require much configuration and doesn’t have any special keybinds.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ghcid and parinfer-rust you can also consider the following projects:

ghci-ng

nvim-ts-rainbow - Rainbow parentheses for neovim using tree-sitter. Use https://sr.ht/~p00f/nvim-ts-rainbow instead

stack - The Haskell Tool Stack

feline.nvim - A minimal, stylish and customizable statusline for Neovim written in Lua

ghcide - A library for building Haskell IDE tooling

lispy - Short and sweet LISP editing

hlint - Haskell source code suggestions

kakoune-doas-write - Fork of kakoune-sudo-write to use doas instead.

castle - A tool to manage shared cabal-install sandboxes.

awesome-neovim - Collections of awesome neovim plugins.

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

nvim-dap - Debug Adapter Protocol client implementation for Neovim