idea sketch : language server for dhall

[alanz]

From http://www.haskellforall.com/2019/01/dhall-year-in-review-2018-2019.html

Editor support

Another thing Dhall is missing compared to YAML is widespread editor support. This is why another one of my goals for this year is to create a Dhall language server so that any editor that supports the language server protocol (basically all of them) would get Dhall support for free.

So, use haskell-lsp to construct a LSP server for dhall. Similar to the ones for

• https://github.com/haskell/haskell-ide-engine
• https://github.com/elm-tooling/elm-language-server
• https://github.com/domenkozar/hnix-lsp

Which are all based on that library.

cc @Gabriel439

[jaspervdj]

This sounds great! @Gabriel439 would you be able to put a short proposal together?

[Gabriella439]

Sorry, looks like I lost track of this and missed the deadline for this :\

I'll try again for next year's Google Summer of Code

[gwils]

You're still welcome to add ideas to the list. Our application is already in but that doesn't prevent us from adding project ideas.

[gbaz]

Right -- the ideas are useful as long as there are students considering writing proposals!

[Gabriella439]

Where would I or the student submit the project proposal?

[gwils]

Submit an "idea" as a pull request on this repo (eg. #102)

A bit over a month from now, interested student(s) should write up proposal(s) based on the idea, and submit them through the GSOC system.