haddock VS haskell-language-server

Happily, at Well-Typed we've got a client funding improvements to Haddock performance, so this should get better in the future. The work isn't yet finished but there are some good improvements already: https://github.com/haskell/haddock/pull/1594

/* ==UserStyle== @name Hackage Synopsis Search Hider @namespace github.com/openstyles/stylus @version 1 @description A userstyle that applies the fix in https://github.com/haskell/haddock/pull/1486/files to hackage.haskell.org @author https://github.com/mrbech/ ==/UserStyle== */ @-moz-document domain("hackage.haskell.org") { #synopsis details:not([open]) > ul { visibility: hidden; } }

This proposal is based on an idea by Haddock maintainers.

The commit in question was made two and a half years ago (25 Feb 2019) so I hope it's on Hackage by now.

I've opened a feature request to add a visible search bar exposing the quick jump functionality in haddock.

The advent of language server protocol made possible the creation of HLS (Haskell Language Server), and there are plugins for many editors, such as vscode-haskell, that allow you to have auto-complete, auto-import, and automatic function signatures—also available to your editor of choice. The whole feedback loop of editing, compiling, and running is greatly improved.

HLS 2.3.0.0 is currently broken on Windows.

The Haskell community has been focusing on tooling and IDE support in the last several years. Haskell-Language-Server is a huge improvment, so the experience is probably much better than you remember, but it'll still be a while before it catches up with Rust.

static-ls is a low memory language server for Haskell that serves as an alternative to (hls)[https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server] with less functionality by using statically generated information. It is intended for (Highly recommend hls instead if you aren't having these issues):

I think the corresponding HLS PR is https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server/pull/3462, so it isn't landed yet but hopefully can be part of a HLS release before too long. (I'm not sure if it will make it in to the very next release because we're due one out to support GHC 9.6.1 pretty soon.)