Haskell Weekly

GHC 8.0.1 is available!

The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the release of the first new super-major version of our Haskell compiler in six years, GHC 8.0.1.

Stackage LTS and GHC 8.0

LTS Haskell is probably going to take a couple months to adopt GHC 8.0. LTS Haskell isn’t on bleeding edge, and that’s the whole point.

A Debugging Horror Story: Fixing a Tricky GHC Bug

I recently spent more than 90 hours debugging what ended up being a problem in GHC’s base libraries.

A practical Template Haskell Tutorial

This tutorial explores the Glasgow Haskell Compiler’s compile-time meta programming in Template Haskell.

Why Haskell Sucks

Today we’re going to look at the bad areas of Haskell, and how we can overcome them.

CodeWorld’s Big Decisions

Reflecting back on the last 6 years of developing and teaching with CodeWorld, there are a number of decisions that were unique, and often even controversial, that define the project.

store: a new and efficient binary serialization library

The store package takes a different approach than most prior serialization packages, in that performance is prioritized over other concerns.