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Issue 190 2019-12-19

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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.

Featured

  • Announcing pretty-relative-time by Tom Sydney Kerckhove

    It is a little library to describe dates and times in the future or in the past in a nice, human readable, familiar feeling way.

  • Casa and Stack by Chris Done

    This post will briefly describe each part of the infrastructure from the bottom up: compiling modules, building and configuring packages, to downloading and storing those packages online.

  • Functortown Lesson 12: The Reader context by Type Classes

    In this lesson, we’ll be talking about the function type again and looking at its Applicative instance.

  • OCaml vs Haskell by Théophane Hufschmitt

    This is a parodic answer to Haskell vs OCaml. I wouldn’t go as far as pretend that everything here is written in good faith.

  • Prefer to use fail for IO exceptions by Gabriella Gonzalez

    This post briefly explains why I commonly suggest that people replace error with fail when raising IOExceptions.

  • Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell: a Retrospective by Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones, and Satnam Singh

    Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell was awarded the SIGPLAN ten-year most-influential paper award in 2019. In this blog post we reflect on the journey that led to the paper, and what has happened since.

  • Which type-safe database library should you use? by William Yao

    Beam versus Squeal: which one is better? Or maybe you’ve heard good things about Selda or Opaleye. Lots of options, not a lot of guidance.

  • Zone of Ceremony by Mark Seemann

    People who favour dynamically typed languages over statically typed languages often emphasise that they find the lack of ceremony productive.

Jobs

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Software

  • BazQux Reader — your friend for reading feeds (ad)

    Try fine RSS feed reader written in Haskell and Ur/Web. Read blogs, Twitter, Facebook pages and Telegram channels in one place. Enjoy good typography. Search, filter, bookmark and share. Make your own algorithm free feed and support independent Haskell developer by purchasing a subscription.

In brief

  • Algebraic lenses by Chris Penner

    There are several new types of optics presented in the paper, we’ll start by looking at one of them in particular, but will set the groundwork for the others which I’ll hopefully get to in future posts.

  • Asynchronous PureScript by Drew Olson

    While learning the language, I struggled to find any beginner material that introduced the relevant topics and included small examples.

  • GHC 8.8.2-rc1 is now available by Ben Gamari

    The GHC team is proud to announce the first release candidate of GHC 8.8.2.

  • Lazy Constructive Numbers and the Stern-Brocot Tree by Donnacha Oisín Kidney

    In this post, I’m going to talk about a type for the rational numbers, and I’m going to try satisfy those requirements as best I can.

  • A monitoring server by Type Classes

    This example demonstrates simple inter-process communication using sockets, multi-threaded applications, a daemon that responds to an interrupt signal, spawning new processes, and calculating the success-to-failure ratio over a sliding window of event data to assess the health of a service.

  • Top 10 Haskell Open-Source Projects for Linux Users by Jonn Mostovoy

    In this post, we would like to provide our developers’ view on the best projects written in Haskell that they use regularly, in some cases — daily.

Package of the week

This week’s package of the week is Hedis, a client library for the Redis datastore. It supports the full command set and pipelining.

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