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Issue 102 2018-04-12

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Welcome to another issue of Haskell Weekly! Haskell is a safe, purely functional programming language with a fast, concurrent runtime. This is a weekly summary of what’s going on in its community.

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Featured

  • Using Cloud Haskell to write a type-safe distributed chat

    Cloud Haskell is a set of libraries that combines the power of Haskell’s type system with Erlang’s style of concurrency and distributed programming.

  • Strictness surprises in PureScript lazy lists

    It seems that strictness is playing a dirty trick here, evaluating the second cons parameter beforehand against our interest, but strict evaluation is in the nature of PureScript.

  • Transforming transformers

    There’s a kind fellow named lunaris on the FPChat slack channel that shares exceptionally good advice. Unfortunately, due to the ephemeral nature of Slack, a lot of this advice is lost to history.

  • Dynamic programming in Haskell

    Attempting to program a dynamic programming algorithm in Haskell has helped me understand the fundamental principles behind dynamic programming in a way that I wasn’t able to when I learned it from an imperative programming perspective.

  • Your first web application with Spock

    The Spock web framework for Haskell gives you a light but complete foundation to build web servers on, be it for traditional server-side rendered applications, or APIs for single-page applications.

  • Coffee, curries, and monads: My journey through Haskell

    What I am going to do is tell you a little about myself, my programming journey, and why I enjoy programming in Haskell. Hopefully it will encourage you to try it out and witness your own joy with the language.

  • Property based integration testing using Haskell!

    This article doesn’t require any special functional programming techniques and can be replicated everywhere, but using a functional programming language makes this easier.

  • A catamorphic lambda-calculus interpreter

    I was playing around with recursion-schemes, which is pretty cool. It’s very nice to be able to define interpreters like this, so my immediate thought was: can we do this for the lambda-calculus?

  • The monad complaint pipeline

    We are a relatively small community, but we’re maybe a little chatty, maybe have a little too much free time waiting for something to compile. Hence we are engaged in near constant internecine war over build tools and the like.

  • Lightning fast CI for Haskell projects

    I’ve been working in a few projects at a time in Haskell for the past year, and one point that has been dragging is how much time it takes for a CI job to finish, given this, I started to experiment with other solutions to improve my build feedback loop.

Jobs

  • ITProTV seeking Software Developer in Gainesville, Florida

    ITPro.TV is a fast-growing digital media business that focuses on continuing education in technical domains. We are currently accepting applications for full-stack software professionals to join our small but talented multidisciplinary team.

  • Anduril Industries is hiring in Orange County

    Come write Haskell, Rust, and Nix (and some C++ when necessary) to make autonomous robots and drones go! If you like FP, interfacing with hardware, and solving problems in detection, tracking, and autonomous vehicle control, send a note to travis@anduril.com

In brief

Package of the week

This week’s package of the week is packcheck, a script for universal build and CI testing of Haskell packages.

Call for participation

Events

  • April 27-29: BayHac 2018 in San Francisco, California, United States