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

• A Few Haskell Highlights of 2019 by Gints Dreimanis

  To close out the year, I’ve asked my coworkers about notable highlights from this year and separated the answers into 4 groups: releases, books, talks, and blog posts.

• A plea to Haskellers everywhere: Write Junior Code by Matt Parsons

  Let us grow Haskell in industry by writing simpler code and making room for the less experienced.

• Hire and Train Haskell Junior Developers by Vladimir Ciobanu

  I think the reason we don’t have more people doing Haskell is we’re not actually hiring junior developers, and when we do, we don’t set them up for success by properly training them.

• Fancy Haskell by Dan Fithian

  Fancy Haskell code has a time and a place. Make sure to clearly identify the tradeoffs when reaching for anything fancy. Incorporate those tradeoffs into an ideal manifestation of simple code, and then interate until code represents that ideal.

• Runtime based caching by Alexander Vershilov

  When many users send requests, we have to generate lots of connections and perform many queries. The obvious solution here is to introduce a caching mechanism. In this post, I’m going to describe some solutions available in the Haskell ecosystem and our solution, which is quite interesting.

• Software Design and Architecture in Haskell by Alexander Granin

  A structured set of materials on how to build real-world applications in Haskell.

• Alternative HasLens by effectfully

  This post first describes known approaches to construct a HasLens class that allows retrieving a Lens into a type. Then I outline a new possible solution and show how examples that are not convenient to handle with other solutions can be handled directly with the new one.

• Keeping Database Tests Fast with tmp-postgres by Jonathan Fischoff

  When testing with tmp-postgres, using cacheAction, abort, rollback and separate postgres instances can help keep test suites fast even as the project grows larger.

• Elegant AST Parsing and Building with Prisms by Yair Chuchem

  Following my previous post which suggested the use of Prisms for parsing and building, using a binary format example - I also want to show how the same idea can work nicely for parsing and building programming language syntax.

Jobs

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Software

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Package of the week

This week’s package of the week is hpath, a library that provides support for well-typed paths in Haskell.

Call for participation

• persistent: MySQL backend generates foreign keys over length limit
• termonad: not possible build with ghc-8.8.x