lsp and Haskell

[Mario Lang <mlang@blind.guru>]

Hi.

I recently gave lsp based development a try in Emacs.
As I am doing Haskell, I am using haskell-language-server[1].
It appears to only work nicely with emacs-lsp[2].

Question: Are their ongoing efforts to support HLS with eglot?
While eglot being simple is probably a good thing, I am wondering if
going for simplicity is the best way to get broad IDE support via lsp.

HLS with lsp-haskell does really work pretty nicely.
It supports code actions, which puts a lot of cleanup magic at your
fingertips.  It also does code formatting and of course completion and M-.

I am posting this fully aware that some packages have a hard time
being installable by default in Emacs.  I usually dont care much.
However, in this case, I believe stock Emacs should make it easier to
get IDE support.  I shouldn't need to fiddle with elisp, configuring an
"alternative app store" to get IDE support for $language.
At least that would be my wish.
Besides, something was slightly off when I put melpa into
package-archives.  I managed to install the three packages I needed, but
after I did so, they vanished from the package list.  After a restart of
Emacs, I now have lsp-ui and lsp-haskell marked as installed, but
lsp-mode is marked as "available" but it is installed in
~/.config/emacs/elpa.
I haven't tried to figure out what is going on here.
My point is that having to activate melpa to get IDE support for
$language seems to expose weird behaviour, which only helps to alienate
people who are newcomers trying to use Emacs as an IDE.

As I understand it, we currently require copyright assignment for every
extra package we make available by default.  Putting rules in place is
likely a good idea, but is this one rule really helping Emacs?
It feels a bit harsh.  I totally understand that we require assignments
for everything that goes into core Emacs.  But third party packages?
Really?
If I am not misunderstanding this, what is the actual rationale behind it?

[1] https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server
[2] https://github.com/emacs-lsp/
    https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-haskell
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CYa,
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