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

• 2022 State of Haskell Survey Results by Taylor Fausak

  The sixth annual State of Haskell Survey closed this week. This post summarizes the results and makes the raw data available.

• LTS 20 release for ghc-9.2 and Nightly now on ghc-9.4 by Jens Petersen

  The Stackage team is very happy to announce the first Stackage LTS version 20 snapshot has been released this week, based on GHC stable version 9.2.5.

• WebAssembly backend merged into GHC by Cheng Shao

  Tweag has been working on a GHC WebAssembly backend for some time. Recently, the WebAssembly backend merge request has landed in GHC, and is on course to appear in the upcoming 9.6 release series.

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In brief

• Announcing a live tutorial on eventlog2html and ghc-debug by Finley McIlwaine & Andres Löh

  We are happy to announce that we will be live-streaming a free tutorial on Haskell debugging tools via YouTube.

• Funding GHC, Cabal and HLS maintenance by Adam Gundry

  Please get in touch if you can help fund development of the core Haskell tools.

• Haskell Foundation DevOps Weekly Update, 2022-11-23 by Bryan Richter

  In the past week, I have finished my migration preparation. The migration itself is scheduled for tomorrow morning (Europe time).

• Haskell in Production: FOSSA by Gints Dreimanis

  Our today’s guest is Leo Zhang, who works in the engineering team at FOSSA — a tool for open-source risk management.

• Problems with products, part 2 by Chris Martin

• Seeking new Stackage Curator by Michael Snoyman

  I am planning on stepping down from my position as one of the Stackage Curators. With personal and work responsibilities, I simply don’t have the time to dedicate to my curator responsibilities.

Show & tell

• dr-cabal version 0.2.0.0 by Dmitrii Kovanikov

  I’m happy to announce the new version of dr-cabal — a Haskell dependencies build time profiler!

• get-tested by Théophile Choutri

  Hi everyone, get-tested is a CLI tool that reads your cabal file and takes the tested-with stanza to generate a build matrix for GitHub Actions.

• Stack version 2.9.3 release candidate by Mike Pilgrem

  Please test it and let us know at the Stack repository if you run into any trouble. If all goes well, we hope to release the final version in a couple of weeks.

Call for participation

• curry-language-server: Add deprecation tag to completion item for OPTIONS_CYMAKE
• eclair-lang: Update to GHC9.2
• xrefcheck: Avoid resource leaking in scanners