Super easy to get started

I have been wanting to learn Haskell and recently started to research the best ways to get a Haskell environment up and running on my iMac to play around with the language. I came across this program and initially was skeptical that it would be worth the $20. However, my desire to learn Haskell and the potential benefits of this tool made me quickly overlook the price and I am glad that I did.

First, the editor does a great job with Haskell. It has an Xcode-like interface which makes it immediately familiar for a lot of programmers on the Mac. While the keyboard shortcuts are not an exact one-to-one with Xcode, the author did make sure to align with the most important ones.

And it offers a live playground which allows you to learn Haskell interactively or experiment with an idea or existing piece of code. Anyone who has done any work with Playgrounds know how fantastic the visual REPL is. This one does not fall short in any way and relunctantly I will admit it is more responsive than Xcode’s. I haven’t explored if it offers any markup/markdown support, but the current version is well worth the investment even if you only use it to a) learn Haskell and b) occassionally pull it up to solve problems in Haskell

So if you are trying to learn Haskell, I highly recommend this program.

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