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Issue 202 2020-03-12
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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.
Featured
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Monadic Party Speakers and Workshops released! by Monadic Party
We have selected speakers for this year’s edition of Monadic Party, a four day, three track summer school of Haskell. Join us this year for workshops at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. See the recordings from our previous two editions on our Youtube Channel.
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Bringing your Haskell types to Reason by Stack Builders
One of the challenges that we face in web development is that we are often writing the backend and the frontend in different languages and type systems. To build reliable applications, we need a way to connect both. We can build a bridge that helps us to traverse safely between the backend and the frontend with a code generation tool that allows us to use the same types on both sides of the application. This article is based on the talk presented in Compose Conference NYC 2019
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Effectful Property Testing by Matt Parsons
At work, we have a lot of complex SQL queries written both in
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Get base onto stackage.org by Alexey Kuleshevich
If you carefully inspect the table of core packages and try to match to available versions on Hackage for those libraries, you will quickly notice that a few of them are missing.
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Ghc Tags Plugin by Marcin Szamotulski
Existing solutions like hasktags do not cover all the new language features, so at times one is left is searching the tree by hand.
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Haskell with UTF-8 by Kirill Elagin
This is to announce that we have published a new Haskell library called with-utf8 and we hope that it will help solve this kind of problems once and for all.
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Tracking Changes to Base by Colin Woodbury
This post is a reference for library authors to easily track how
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Whole STG program compiler (status report) by Csaba Hruska
In the previous months I worked on the whole STG program compilation pipeline implementation.
Jobs
- Interos is Hiring Full Stack Haskell Software Engineers (ad)
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Trying to hire a Haskell developer? You should advertise with us!
In brief
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Announce: latex-svg packages by Oleg Grenrus
This week Andres Löh asked whether LaTeX can be rendered as SVGs. The answer is yes.
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Lesson 6: Applicatives compose by Type Classes
We will be using Reader again in this lesson, but here we will want to see that it can compose with other applicative functors.
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Making the Jump to Real World Haskell by Monday Morning Haskell
So in this article, I wanted to share some of the mistakes I made when I was trying to make that jump. These are what motivated me to make this course, so I hope you can learn from them.
Show & tell
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holmes by Tom Harding
A library for computing constraint-solving problems.
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mallRL by Nikolas Mählmann
A grocery shopping roguelike developed for the 7drl game jam.
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ooh by Compl Yue
I never imagined object oriented stylish program can be written in Haskell in such a way so straight forward!
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org-mode, org-mode-lucid, and skylighting-lucid by Colin Woodbury
Together these can be used to write articles in Emacs’ Org Mode, inject that content into a Lucid Html () structure, and get nice syntax highlighting for your code samples.