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Issue 230 2020-09-24
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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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Reanimate v1.0 by David Himmelstrup
It is my great pleasure to announce version 1.0 of the Reanimate animation library. Reanimate aims to be a batteries-included way of creating animations and illustrations.
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Strategic Deriving by Kowainik
But what exactly is deriving, how does it work and what pitfalls can it bring? What are deriving strategies and how do you get a habit of using them regularly?
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Sockets and Pipes by Type Classes
Sockets and Pipes is not an introduction to Haskell; it is an introduction to writing software in Haskell.
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Lazy Sort: Counting Comparisons by Jasper Van der Jeugt
How good is Haskell’s lazy sort actually?
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Don’t use Ghcide anymore (directly) by Neil Mitchell
I recommend people use the Haskell Language Server IDE.
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This year due to the ongoing Corona situation, MuniHac will take place as a two-day online event filled with Haskell talks and workshops. The talks will be streamed and you can watch them here.
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In brief
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Haskell’s Children by Owen Lynch
I find myself simply not as excited about Haskell as I used to be. What changed?
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In the computer by Chris Martin
When people talk about “algebraic reasoning”, explanations fall flat because we neglect to first figure out kind of reasoning we’re contrasting it against.
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MuniHac 2020 by Well-Typed
We enjoyed attending virtual MuniHac and would like to thank our co-organisers TNG for all the work they put into planning, hosting and and running the event.
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Optimised Row Columnar for Haskell by Huw Campbell
I are proud to announce a new Apache ORC library for Haskell which I am releasing as open source under the Affero General Public License.
Show & tell
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base16-bytestring version 1.0.0.0 Emily Pillmore
This release marks an epochal change in the library’s structure, changing some existing features, and adding others.
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ghcup version 0.1.11 by Julian Ospald
This release adds haskell-language-server (hls) to ghcup.
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stm-actor & stm-queue by Samuel Schlesinger
Released stm-actor, something I’d been chewing on for a while, and stm-queue to accompany it in order to get better worst-case latency for reads than TQueue.