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The tests seem to hang sometimes. There is probably a race condition in the tests causing this to happen. We need to at least put timeouts in the tests to ensure they fail instead of hang. Then, of course, we need to make sure the tests don't have race conditions or leaks.

It's worth noting that cabal test will wait for all child processes to die as well. Since our tests spawn child processes, even just leaking them can cause the tests to hang.

reflex-ghci exits with:

.ob-wrapped: Cannot decode byte '\xe2': Data.Text.Internal.Encoding.decodeUtf8: Invalid UTF-8 stream

I have no idea what this byte is. Maybe it has something to do with ASCII escape codes?

I had this idea. ob thunk is pretty tied to obelisk; its key feature of loading unpacked thunks to the ghci repl (ghcid and ghci) is very useful in non-reflex projects as well.

If reflex-ghci aims to be an alternative to ghcid, but with a more interesting UI, I think it would be cool to add thunks to the 'distinguishing features' list as well. If that's gonna lead to scope creep, perhaps this can all be done on top of reflex-ghci as a new tool (name: lingam? :-D), just as reflex-ghci itself is done on top of reflex-vty.

I could certainly use it for my Haskell project, without abusing cabal file (which gets tiresomely unwieldy beyond a point).

/cc @ali-abrar @3noch