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Issue 248 2021-01-28
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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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Lambda Days 2021 (ad)
Check out @LambdaDays - a vibrant event focused on functional programming and its growing community. With daily updates on their line-up they have exciting news for anyone interested Haskell, but also Scala, Erlang, Elixirlang, Clojure and more!
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Building a Passphrase Generator in Haskell by Mathias Jean Johansen
In this blog post, I will elaborate on how this method of generating passphrases works and how it can be implemented in Haskell.
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Haskell ghost knowledge; difficult to access, not written down by Baldur Blöndal
What ghost knowedge is there in Haskell?
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Maybe Either by Haskell Weekly Podcast
Is Maybe problematic? Well, maybe. Robert Peszek thinks that Maybe is overused. Cameron Gera and Taylor Fausak break it down and consider alternatives.
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Seeking the reasons for segfaults of a Haskell program by Kazu Yamamoto
Many Haskellers would be surprised at this kind of segfaults because it is hard to cause segfaults in normal Haskell programming.
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Stack Governance by Michael Snoyman
A few months back I wrote about the Haskell Foundation and some of my plans with it. Earlier than that, I also spoke about my thoughts on transparency.
Jobs
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In brief
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IHP and elm - towards a functional web by Digitally Induced
We have recently added an elm template, which allows you to get started with elm perfectly set up and ready to go in a new IHP project.
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Introducing the new Plutus Playground by Olga Hryniuk
Plutus Playground provides an environment for writing and testing smart contracts before they are released on the Cardano blockchain.
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Stackage LTS 17.0 With GHC 8.10.3.
Show & tell
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chart-svg version 0.2.0 by Tony Day
I am pleased to announce a major release of chart-svg. 0.2 now has experimental reanimate support, and is otherwise a sharper, better documented chart library, focused on svg production.
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dep-t and dep-t-advice: spruce up your records-of-functions! by Daniel Diaz
I wanted to show two small packages I’ve been working on called dep-t and dep-t-advice. They provide a variant of ReaderT specialized for the record-of-functions idiom.