Call for volunteers: a CLC proposal to improve the printing of IO errors

On the HF Slack instance, a user dropped by with a request: can programs that fail due to missing files be better about reporting to users which file was missing? The user in question is providing feedback about how many programs in Haskell can be improved in one fell swoop, but they’re not really in a position to fix it themselves. Concretely, they’re using dhall-to-json, which displays the following when it tries to open a broken symlink: : openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory...

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