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by runeks 3612 days ago
Such a tool exists. I've had hlint tell me many times how to do something in a better way. At some point I had it hooked into my IDE, so it would mark improvable code in yellow.

Especially in the first year I learned a lot of new Haskell syntax and functions just from its suggestions.
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harveywi 3611 days ago
If you don't mind me asking, which IDE do you use?
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runeks 3611 days ago
Oh, yeah, I should have mentioned that: IntelliJ IDEA with the Haskforce plugin. The plugin isn't maintained any longer, though, so it's not the best solution, but it was perfect when both ghc-mod and hlint worked. ghc-mod still works, because I can't go back to coding without it, speeds everything up so much to have instant compiler feedback.

For example, there is this fatal, unresolved bug that no one knows how to fix: https://github.com/carymrobbins/intellij-haskforce/issues/28...

EDIT: It's working again (for projects that do not exhibit above bug): http://i.imgur.com/jPo4Tas.png

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