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Issue 139 2018-12-27

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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

  • The Essence of Datalog by Mistral Contrastin

    In which we implement a simple Datalog engine in not many lines of Haskell to understand its semantics.

  • Welcome to GitLab! by Ben Gamari

    I am happy to announce that CI on GHC’s GitLab instance is now stable. At this point GitLab is to be considered the official upstream repository of GHC.

  • Stackage LTS 13 with ghc-8.6.3 by Dan Burton

    We are pleased to announce the release of lts-13.0, the first in a new LTS Haskell snapshot series, using ghc-8.6.3.

  • Abstraction levels in functional programming by Tomáš Zemanovič

    I am delighted to see more people learning functional programming and find the effort that goes into making it accessible to a wider audience encouraging.

  • Advent of Haskell by Martín Valdés de León

    Thoughts and lessons learned after using Haskell consistently for 25 days in a row.

  • Curses Pac-man game in Haskell by Alex Kavanagh

    I wrote this as an exercise in improving my Haskell, which I started this year and for learning how to use lenses for a presentation I’m going to do for my local functional programming group.

  • Happy Haskell Programming for GHC 8.x by Kazu Yamamoto

    I’m happy to announce that Happy Haskell Programming (HHP) version 0.0.0 has been released. In short, HHP is a fork from ghc-mod 4.1.6 and re-written for all GHC 8.x.

  • Rigid types and block arguments by Chris Martin

    Rigid type variables: Understanding that phrase that shows up in your compile errors can help you learn more about the type system. BlockArguments: The fun new GHC extension stealing everyone’s dollars.

  • Testing distributed-process apps using Hspec by Philip Cunningham

    distributed-process is a Haskell library that brings Erlang-style concurrency to Haskell. Whilst developing an application at work that uses it, I found that there wasn’t much material online describing how to test distributed-process applications.

Jobs

  • Galois is Hiring! (ad)

    Galois is looking for Software Engineers/Researchers and Project Managers! We collaborate with organizations like NASA, DARPA, and Amazon Web Services to explore blue sky ideas and turn them into usable technology. Some of the things we’ve worked on in the past: Formal methods, static analysis, binary analysis, cryptographic algorithms, domain specific languages, programming languages theory, abstract interpretation, type theory, formal verification and software correctness, reinforcement learning, autonomous systems assurance, communication security, cyber-deception for network defense, DDoS defense, provable hardware security, statistical anomaly detection for detecting advanced persistent threats. We think working here is awesome (see https://lifeatgalois.com).

In brief

Package of the week

This week’s package of the week is fgl, a functional graph library.

Call for participation