Haskell Weekly

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

• Random benchmarks by Alexey Kuleshevich

  This post will compare performance of available libraries in Haskell for random number generation, as well as provide a brief introduction on how to use those libraries and what their conceptual differences are.

• Monadic Party 2020 by Monadic Party

  Monadic Party is a four days long summer school of Haskell with excellent speakers, three tracks and lunch included. Join us this year for workshops at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. See the recordings from our previous two editions on our Youtube Channel. CFP applications are open.

• Haskell art in your browser with Asterius by Sylvain Henry & Shao Cheng

  Asterius has reached a new milestone: it can now compile the popular diagrams library for drawing with Haskell.

• Making a small Haskell application by Morten Kolstad

  To try to help to bridge this gap, I will walk through how to create a “practical” Haskell application.

• Async Exceptions in Haskell, and Rust by Michael Snoyman

  This post is going to compare the Haskell async exception mechanism to whatever powers Tokio’s timeout.

• A Glossary of Functional Programming by John A. De Goes

  Over time, I’ve collected and converged on simple (but reasonably precise) pedagogical definitions for a range of functional concepts.

• Up to date Real World Haskell by Tae Sandoval

  Sadly the language and libraries have changed enough to make several of the examples useless so I am making them working again.

• Parsers And Builders As Prisms by Yair Chuchem

  In this post we’ll introduce Construct’s declarative approach and then discuss how to implement an equivalent principled solution in Haskell, based on optics.

• Faster Database Testing with the New tmp-postgres by Jonathan Fischoff

  The new tmp-postgres is over 5x faster on macOS and linux but the story doesn’t end here.

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.

Package of the week

This week’s package of the week is FIR, an EDSL that compiles to SPIR-V for graphics programming on the GPU in Haskell.