Haskell-ide-engine: GSOC 2020 Ideas

[alanz]

It is time to consider ideas for GSOC students.

These are captured as PRs on https://github.com/haskell-org/summer-of-haskell

The email announcing this is https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2020-January/025903.html

[alanz]

cc @jaspervdj

[jneira]

I guess we have take in account the possible work to integrate ghcide and hie:
https://github.com/haskell/haskell-ide-engine#configuration but anyway my 2 cents:

I think the more attractive tasks usually are improvements and there are many, many issues labeled with "enhacement" : https://github.com/haskell/haskell-ide-engine/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22type%3A+enhancement%22

Given my background as jvm developer i miss sometimes to have a graphical debugger: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-ide-engine/issues/204 but i am aware that not everyone thinks that it is even needed in haskell.

[alanz]

I have DAP protocol support in my list of things to discuss going forward. To me it is intimately tied in to providing a REPL.