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

• Dynamic Exception Reporting in Haskell by Matt Parsons

  Exceptions kind of suck in Haskell. You don’t get a stack trace. They don’t show up in the types of functions. They incorporate a subtyping mechanism that feels more like Java casting than typical Haskell programming.

Jobs

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In brief

• Haskell Foundation DevOps Weekly Log, 2022-08-17 by Bryan Richter

  In the last week and a half, I continued to focus on spurious failures. To wrap things up before my break, I wrote a wiki page about the spurious failure effort that explains my methodology.

Show & tell

• Rel8 version 1.4 by Ollie Charles

  I’m happy to announce the release of Rel8 1.4. Rel8 is a Haskell library for interacting with PostgreSQL databases, built on top of the fantastic Opaleye library.

• reactive-banana version 1.3.1.0 by Ollie Charles

  I’m happy to announce the next version of reactive-banana. reactive-banana is a library for Functional Reactive Programming (FRP).

• Yampa version 0.13.6 by Ivan Perez

  Yampa prides itself in being a long-standing community project. It’s now been around for almost 20 years!

Call for participation

• dunai: Re-structure API: InternalCore and Util
• fourmolu: Optionally indent with tabs