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However, I'm a huge fan of static tools like this in general. I've heard great things about https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/jfmengels/elm-review/latest/ and I need to try out https://github.com/kowainik/stan. Also its possible HLint has ways to write more advanced rules and I just don't know about them, but even if that's so hopefully I've explained why just dropping it in isn't a huge win.
A bunch of those hints are coming from generated code - e.g. https://github.com/TomMD/hsthrift/blob/c9fb3a4b425c86fd0e0f7fe86d438fb90c0ff2e3/compiler/test/fixtures/gen-hs2/A/S/Service.hs#L56 is a complete mess for a human, but perfectly reasonable as a generation target. They might well be using HLint, and not running it on generated code, which would be a reasonable approach.
We have now switched to the pinch library ( https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pinch ) which feels more Haskell-y, although at the price of using some more advanced type-level stuff (type families, GADTs). On the other hand, finally an excuse to use those in production code :-) We also have written a code-generator for it, though that could do with a lot of polish ...( https://github.com/phile314/pinch-gen/ ).
A production RPC framework is a lot of work, so of course we didn't want to duplicate everything in the C++ implementation. Yes that makes it a bit of a pain to build, but we have provided instructions and a CI setup that's working right now on github to demonstrate that it all works. Also there's a [pure Haskell implementation of the transport layer](https://github.com/facebookincubator/hsthrift/blob/master/lib/Thrift/Channel/SocketChannel.hs) in the repository for experimentation - we're in the process of making it easier to use this, but when we're done the only C++ dependency will be folly.