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

• Anonymous or large records with OverloadedRecordDot and OverloadedRecordUpdate by Edsko de Vries

  In this short blog post we will discuss these two extensions in the context of two libraries, large-anon and large-records.

• Evolving isDigit by Mihai Maruseac

  However, in the middle of it I had a different idea: what if we ask the computer to come up with the function?.

• GHC 9.6.1-rc1 is now available! by Ben Gamari

  The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of the first (and likely final) release candidate of GHC 9.6.1.

• Haskell for Elm developers: giving names to stuff (Part 3 - Monads!) by Flavio Corpa

  It is finally time, I did not think I would ever write a Monad tutorial, but here it is!

• Haskell in Enterprise: Interview with Rob Harrison by Gints Dreimanis

  Our today’s guest is Rob Harrison, a Lead Architect at Flowmo.co. He has worked as a technical lead on projects for clients like Vodafone and Tesco. In the interview, we’ll be talking about his experience and techniques that he uses to bring the power of functional programming to consulting projects.

Jobs

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In brief

• CLC Update (March 2023) by Dmitrii Kovanikov

  I would like to start publishing monthly Core Libraries Committee (CLC) digests to increase transparency and visibility around CLC.

• Constructing Clifford Algebras using the Super Tensor Product

  This is a followup to Geometric Algebra for Free and More Low Cost Geometric Algebra.

• Copilot 3.14 - Runtime Verification Haskell EDSL used at NASA by Ivan Perez

  I’m very excited to announce Copilot 3.14. Copilot is a stream-based EDSL in Haskell for writing and monitoring embedded C programs, with an emphasis on correctness and hard realtime requirements.

• Haskell Foundation DevOps Weekly Log, 2023-03-08 by Bryan Richter

  Hello, welcome to another DevOps weekly log.

• Haskell Symposium 2023 Call for Papers by ICFP

  The ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2023 will be co-located with the 2023 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP).

• Haskell via WebAssembly on Fastly by Joachim Breitner

  A very boring page that is produced by Haskell code compiled to WebAssembly and running on Fastly’s Compute@Edge infrastructure.

• GHC WebAssembly Weekly Update, 2023-03-08 by Cheng Shao

  Hi all, the GHC WebAssembly weekly update is back!

• Keelung Alpha Release by BTQ

  After a year of intensive research and development focused on post-quantum zero-knowledge cryptography, we have created Keelung to empower developers to create secure and reliable post-quantum zero-knowledge proofs without requiring specialized cryptography skills.

Show & tell

• dunai version 0.10.1 and bearriver version 0.14.1 by Ivan Perez

  Dunai is a reactive programming library structured around a notion of Monadic Stream Functions.

• Yampa - Game Of Life by Oleg Musijenko

Call for participation

• swarm: isPresent command
• xmonad-contrib: Create a new CenterMainFluid layout