Haskell Weekly

Contributing to GHC

An underlying issue is one of effort budget. GHC has essentially no full-timers, unlike many open-source projects.

Async exceptions, STM, and deadlocks

Catch the synchronous ones and recover, never recover from asynchronous exceptions.

Token authentication with Servant

It’s precisely because HasServer is a type class with an associated type that we can extend it without needing to modify the servant-server library itself.

What can I do to help the String/ByteString/Text problem?

Get text into base, for starters.

Annoy r/haskell in one sentence

I tried this in Haskell and it’s got the same problems as JavaScript: [] == “”.

Best practices for distributing a Haskell application and updating it

I want the executable to be easy to install and upgrade, even for non-Haskellers.

Why did making Haskell lazy have an impact on performance?

Simon Peyton Jones says that making Haskell Lazy helped them with resource-constraints on the machines they had at the time.