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Issue 211 2020-05-14

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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

  • Weekly News for Busy Devs by Jakub Chodounsky (ad)

    Programming Digest is a weekly curated newsletter with the five most interesting stories in programming, data, and tech.

  • The doomsday machine by Clément Delafargue

    Ah, the do-notation. Is it good, is it bad; who knows? It’s good for beginners, it’s bad for beginners. It’s considered harmful.

  • Extensions by Kowainik

    The write up provides the rough description of Extensions Technique in the Haskell compiler, therefore, is suitable for everyone even without any prior knowledge of that term.

  • Learning Haskell: Getting Started by Grant Leadbetter

    Join me in the next part of Learning Haskell where we learn about Arithmetic, Functions, Lazy Evaluation and more.

  • Micro C, Part 4: Integrating the LLVM FFI by Joseph Morag

    Here, we’ll get a taste of how to use the ffi bindings in llvm-hs to do the same thing and also to perform stricter checks on our generated llvm code.

  • Option parsing in Haskell, Part 2: A standard approach to settings in Haskell by Tom Sydney Kerckhove

    That post describes how settings should be handled. This post will describe how to do that in Haskell in practice.

  • On PVP + Restrictive Bounds by Matt Parsons

    The following discussion occured on the FPChat Slack. It was pasted into a gist by Emily Pillmore.

  • Reanimate: Swearing at bad documentation by William Yao

    Reanimate’s a fairly recent addition to the Haskell ecosystem and I haven’t seen a lot of discussion about actually using it, so I’d like to chime in with my own experiences with the library.

  • Sockets and Pipes by Type Classes

    Using a handful of everyday Haskell libraries, this book walks through reading the HTTP specification and implementing it to create a web server.

  • The State of Haskell IDEs by Luke Lau

    As many might be aware, the past year has seen a number of significant changes to the ecosystem, with one of the most noticeable ones being the marriage of ghcide and haskell-ide-engine.

Jobs

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In brief

Show & tell

  • it-has by Dobromir Nikolov

    A Generic implementation of data-has.

  • knit by Philip Kamenarsky

    Ties the knot on data structures that reference each other by unique keys.

  • shake-plus by Daniel Firth

    Re-export of Shake using well-typed paths and ReaderT.

Call for participation