Haskell at Mac App Store analyse

Learn functional programming with Haskell. Haskell for Mac provides everything you need in one convenient package.

You get an easy-to-use innovative programming environment optimized to help you understand and develop Haskell code quickly. Regardless of whether you are new to Haskell or whether you like to explore advanced language concepts, algorithms, or libraries, Haskell for Mac will make you more productive than conventional command line-based Haskell systems.

Our secret weapon are our unique Haskell Playgrounds. They facilitate live programming, where your code is constantly executed while you develop and change it. The results of tests and example code are continuously updated and displayed as playground results, regardless of whether they are text, graphics, web pages, or even embedded animations and games.

Haskell for Mac is made for beginners and experts alike.
• The continuous feedback of interactive Haskell playgrounds is ideal for learning functional programming.
• Everybody saves development time due to the fast turnaround as the Haskell code is continuously being type checked and tested against playground code while you edit and refactor.
• Haskell playgrounds provide the ideal environment for experts to quickly experiment with new ideas and to iterate on prototype code.

Haskell for Mac is designed for macOS Catalina and Big Sur.

EASE OF USE
Haskell for Mac is an integrated graphical development environment for Haskell projects, avoiding arcane installation procedures and cryptic command line tools. It includes a project organizer, a Haskell code editor, and playgrounds for interactive code execution. The code editor provides integrated Haskell support for syntax highlighting (with customizable themes) and auto-completion of function, variable, and type names.

LEARN HASKELL AND FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING
Playgrounds provide immediate and continuous feedback while learning. Haskell is one of the most widely used functional programming languages and perfectly suited to learning functional programming. Haskell for Mac even comes with its own custom-made Haskell tutorial — check it out at http://learninghaskell.com

RAPID FEEDBACK
Modern software development is about iterating quickly. While you write, modify, and refactor your Haskell code, it is being continuously type checked and tested. This helps finding mistakes quickly and speeds up development.

WRITE GAMES IN HASKELL
Haskell for Mac integrates a purely functional interface to the macOS SpriteKit framework, including its sophisticated animation system and physics engine. Discover how to write games in a functional style. It only requires basic Haskell knowledge and is a great way to learn Haskell!

PLAYGROUNDS ARE SAFE
Whatever you do in a playground, your data is safe. Haskell for Mac uses macOS sandboxing technology to ensure that anything that happens in a playground stays in the playground. Even if you download a Haskell project from the Internet, the playground code cannot access any other data on your Mac, except with your explicit permission.

HTML, GRAPHICS & ANIMATION
Haskell for Mac comes with support for web programming, network programming, graphics programming, animations, and much more. Interactively generate web pages, charts, and animations.

LIBRARIES AND MORE
Haskell for Mac includes a rich set of over 200 widely used Haskell libraries saving you the trouble of compiling and installing them yourself. However, if you like, it still gives you the flexibility of installing your own libraries. For further technical details, please refer to our product website at http://haskellformac.com

Connect with us on Twitter: @haskellformac

We are always looking for ways to improve Haskell. Please send us your suggestions by contacting [email protected] or use the handy feedback form in the Help menu of the app.

Lowering Haskell’s barrier to entry

• ★★★★★   OSX_AppStore_is_just_the_worst 8 years ago ( v 1.1.0 )

Love it. Getting a Haskell project up and running from scratch can be very discouraging for beginners who are itching to get their hands dirty. The immediacy of this program has made learning, what is a very difficult language, an absolute pleasure for me. Minor nitpicks: - Slightly bummed by the lack of editing shortcuts you’d typically find in a code editor. - I find displaying the SpriteKit scenes in a popover/tooltip a little akward - I’d prefer that it just run in place, or on click if desired.

Excellent for learning haskell

• ★★★★★   arstyarst 8 years ago ( v 1.2.1 )

This has made going through haskell books and tutorials so much more pleasant. I wish it was extensible and had code completion, but otherwise it was worth every penny!

Haskell out of the box !

• ★★★★★   nrolland 9 years ago ( v 1.0.1 )

This haskell out-of-the-box is what I wanted to play fast on any device I have

Crashes when launched

• ★☆☆☆☆   frevo. 9 years ago ( v 1.0.0 )

Haskell always crashes when I launch it on OS X 10.10.5.

Startet nicht

• ★☆☆☆☆   sbn7 9 years ago ( v 1.0.0 )

Die App startet weder auf meinem MacBook noch auf meinem iMac. Ich warte auf eine Reparatur.

Haskell without friction

• ★★★★★   LambdaJM 8 years ago ( v 1.1.0 )

The app feels totally Mac like. Due to the Mac Appstore Download it fits as a first class citizen. Alle the integration of librarys and SpriteKit is fantastic. I am not forced to fight with emacs and the commandline and can conzentraten on lerning the concepts. You can however install the commandline tools and work like a terminal wizard if you need to.

Was great, stays great!

• ★★★★★   TheTrutz 8 years ago ( v 1.2.1 )

For programming Haskell on the Mac there simply is no alternative as convenient as this one. I love this tool every single day!

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