Announcing Purple Yolk, a dumb Haskell extension for VS Code

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I started working on a Haskell extension for VS Code nearly four years ago. I’ve been using it as my primary Haskell development tool since then and it works pretty well (for me). I figured I should get around to actually announcing it:

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OT that’s a really … interesting name.

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Does it mean something I’m not aware of? I feel like purple is Haskell’s color and yolk is just an inside joke with some coworkers.

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This is really useful for formatting just the LANGUAGE pragmas in a project that doesn’t use a code formatter.

Here’s an example, from bsc’s Averilog, selecting the language pragmas and then “format selection with Purple Yolk”:

  {-# LANGUAGE CPP #-}
- {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances, TypeSynonymInstances, PatternGuards #-}
- {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-}
+ {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-}
+ {-# LANGUAGE PatternGuards #-}
+ {-# LANGUAGE TypeSynonymInstances #-}
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This is literally exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thank you Taylor!

I’m so tired of HLS getting really freaky on some of my projects … especially when there’s FFI involved.

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