[progman]

I think the language itself is not the problem but the environment. It takes a lot of effort to setup a working system.

What beginners want is a "QuickHaskell" -- an out-of-the-box working Haskell environment with all batteries included -- in the sense of QuickLisp, for all platforms (not only OSX). I know FP Complete but this is a web service. It would be nice to have an instantly working environment for offline programming.

Why did the Haskell community not promote EclipseFP? It is (was?) such an awesome beginner's IDE. The maintainer has quit due to lack of support.

http://jpmoresmau.blogspot.de/2015/05/eclipsefp-end-of-life-...

[fractalsea]

Have you tried the FP Haskell Center IDE[1]? It's completely web based, and should make it very easy to set up projects, bring in stable libraries and do builds. I would imagine this would be very useful for beginners.

There's more information in the linked Communities Report.

[1] https://www.fpcomplete.com/business/haskell-center/overview/

[badpenny]

He specifically mentioned offline programming.

[codygman]

Hopefully since FP Complete open sourced the backend to their FP Haskell center IDE a offline usable version will be made.