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Issue 348 2022-12-29
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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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GHC 9.4.4 is now available! by Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of GHC 9.4.4. This release is primarily a bugfix release.
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Haskell Language Server 1.9.0.0 released by Zubin Duggal
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Building Pandoc with stacklock2nix by Dennis Gosnell
This post explains how to use stacklock2nix to build Pandoc, but with a twist that Pandoc will be fully statically-linked.
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Functors as invariant functors by Mark Seemann
It turns out that all functors are also invariant functors. Is this useful?
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Making GHC faster at emitting code by Alexis King
For the past few months, Krzysztof Gogolewski and I have had the opportunity to work with Mercury to identify what some of those improvements might be, and I am pleased to report that our first major patch toward that end will be part of GHC 9.6.
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Synthesizing the boring parts with GHC: a research progress report by Micah Cantor
This semester I worked with Peter-Michael Osera at Grinnell College on a project exploring how to use the Haskell GHC to generate some simple, even “obvious,” function definitions.
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In brief
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CLC Election January 2023 by Andrew Lelechenko
It’s this time of year again: the terms of three CLC members are ending in January, so we are seeking new nominations!
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Day 25 - Balanced Quinary by Monday Morning Haskell
This is it - the last problem! I’ll be taking a bit of a break after this, but the blog will be back in January!
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Deprecating Safe Haskell, or heavily investing in it? by Théophile Choutri
I am looking into whether or not Safe Haskell is still worth maintaining.
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Haskell Foundation DevOps Weekly Update, 2022-12-28 by Bryan Richter
This has been a short week focused on notarization and release engineering in general.
Show & tell
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infinite-list by Andrew Lelechenko
Modern lightweight library for infinite lists with fusion.
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tasty-autocollect version 0.4.0 by Brandon Chinn
tasty-autocollect
is an alternative totasty-discover
for auto-discovery of tests using the tasty framework.