haskell-platform VS zeal

The original link http://www.haskell.org/platform/ does redirect to the downloads page, but http://www.haskell.org/platform (without the slash) doesn't. Still, I think it's probably better to make it explicit to visitors that the Platform is deprecated in favour of the Downloads page: https://github.com/haskell-infra/www.haskell.org/pull/167

The link for the official page (http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/) gives you a 404 error and every other link (including those on the official Haskell Platform Github https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform) leads you to the generic downloads page on the official website which has absolutely no hint about Haskell Platform.

If you plan to try some of the examples, I would highly recommend setting up Haskell locally on your machine. You can follow this guide to download and set up ghc and ghci, we will use ghci for all examples.

Why does the haskell platform (https://www.haskell.org/platform/ ) require it in order to install the IDE?

As for GHC, check out this page for step-by-step explanations of installation. Personally I think it's much easier to set this up on linux compared to windows. I use Ubuntu WSL2 on Windows, this avoids a lot of the trouble.

Is it about the time to redirect the "Download Haskell" link in the right sidebar here from https://www.haskell.org/platform/ to https://www.haskell.org/downloads/?

If you save the sliced model as x3g (default for FFCP) and you get an empty file, follow the steps described in this issue to install the required libraries: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues/231#issuecomment-177530716

There's also Zeal (https://zealdocs.org/) which is basically the same as Dash but open source and runs on non-Mac devices.

For offline tech documentation you can use Zeal. Must have tool for poor internet connection places. Present in ubuntu repos. https://zealdocs.org/

ads don't have to proprietary

here's one example of ads in FOSS https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issues/779

There’s stuff like https://zealdocs.org/ that allow you to take all relevant documentation with you so offline coding will work.

If you just want to be productive, you could also bring a lot of books or downloaded tutorials on a drive.

Btw, make sure your drive is encrypted and you think of a way to backup your data so you don’t lose the offline progress.

I’d suggest you look into Kiwix¹ and also Zeal².

1. https://www.kiwix.org/

2. https://zealdocs.org/

For offline documentation, I use Zeal (called Dash on macos) which looks/works almost identically to rubydoc.info but much faster since it's offline, has a standard interface for all installed language documentations, and only 1 global hotkey away while programming.

I highly recommend using local solutions to this local issue: Zeal[1] (aka Dash[2] on MacOS)

Load up the "docsets" of your languages (lightly edited HTML docs for indexing purposes) and use a global keyboard shortcut (F8 for me) to pull up Python/Postgres/Terraform docs, searching for the right function without internet query.

This isn't straight up applicable to all questions of course, but "How do I search regular expressions in Python again?" is now as easy as "re"

Note that the docsets can be converted from normal HTML ones via doc2dash[3], especially useful to load up custom docs like private providers.

[1]: https://zealdocs.org/