WinHugs

WinHugs is a software application which has been developed specifically to aid people in experimenting with Haskell commands, in a friendlier environment.

After going through a seamless and quick installation process, you come face to face with a clean and minimalistic GUI, as opposed to the original Hugs which was a command-line utility. The main window is quite typical, containing a menu bar, a few buttons and a pane in which to display information and start coding.

In addition to that, extensive Help documentation is provided, thus making sure that all users can easily find their way around it, be they experienced or not with the IT world.

This utility enables you to upload HS and LHS files from the hard drive with just a click, while you can also access a module manager, browse a built-in list of classes, and view a graphical representation of class hierarchy and list of type constructors. All these items can be customized with ease, using Notepad.

It is possible to copy, cut, paste and delete selected items, go to the previous or next line, or clear the entire screen with just a click of the button. You can also open your default text editor from the main window, clear modules or reload them, execute the program or stop it with a minimal amount of effort.

The computer’s performance is not going to be hampered seeing that the amount of resources required is insignificant. The response time is good and our tests did not reveal any errors, hangs or crashes.

To wrap it up, we can safely say WinHugs is a pretty efficient software solution, which comes packed with a pretty simple and intuitive graphical user interface.