hoogle VS ihaskell

This can be a very useful tool. In the Haskell community there's https://hoogle.haskell.org/ which serves a similar purpose. For me this search engine is indispensable anytime I try to do anything in Haskell.

https://hoogle.haskell.org/ can help you find the function that you're looking for.

As for "words"... yes, possibly not the best name. But also so common that everyone that has ever written any Haskell code knows it. Such as Java's System.out.println

Dimensions behave somewhat like a "type system" for math. These dimensional-analysis tricks act like the trick you see in Haskell sometimes, where you can easily guess an implementation of an expression once you know it's type (or e.g. search by type signature https://hoogle.haskell.org/ )

Haskell Spotlight makes vscode a client for hoogle. It isn't too different than jumping into your browser and type https://hoogle.haskell.org/. The main advantage is that you have everything in one place

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base and https://hoogle.haskell.org are automatically up to date and better searchable than almost any other reference of any other programming language. maintaining a redundant reference that needs to be kept up to date manually is simply stupid.

Are you referring to IHaskell: https://github.com/IHaskell/IHaskell?

Note that we do have the IHaskell kernel for Jupyter, so we don't have to be that jealous.

More info: https://github.com/gibiansky/IHaskell/issues/1251

That looks like a generic front-end error for when the back-end is unavailable, the back-end error should be more informative, but I don't know where exactly you can find it. At this point it might make sense to open an issue on the issue tracker of IHaskell, they will be able to give you more useful answers.

I haven't actually used IHaskell, however, the png file is presumably created in whatever the working directory is when the script is running. The IHaskell wiki says: