Haskell Communities and Activities Report – November 2014 [pdf] | Hacker News Reader

Haskell Communities and Activities Report – November 2014 [pdf]

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Editor here. I just wanted to thank the submitter and send an informal invitation to submit any Haskell project you're working on for the next version. I'd be more than happy to double the size of the report and include more work which is not yet shown on the report.

Wow, what an awesome synopsis of recent activity in the Haskell ecosystem. Other ecosystems should feal jealous. Fabulous effort on your behalf. Thank you!

Thanks. Most of the work has been done by the authors of the projects and the reports, I merely integrated their entries.

The Haskoin (http://haskoin.com/) team is building a Haskell version of bitcoind, as well as a wallet + gui. One requirement of all bitcoind alternative implementations is maintaining not only feature-parity with bitcoind, but bug-parity as well. Ironically, not so easy with Haskell.

Is there a more online-friendly/small screen friendly version available? Say markdown, utf8 text or plain html available? Or maybe epub? PDF is rather terrible for reflowing and easy reading :/

There is this version, always released in parallel with the PDF. https://www.haskell.org/communities/11-2014/html/report.html

I was thinking of starting to generate only the PDF version but you just provided the best argument to also keep an HTML version. Thanks.

Thanks for Mihai and Alejandro for your excellent work.

This is a really great read. I'm very excited about all the work that's being done in Haskell and all the steam its been picking up. And I'm especially excited by the work being done on the strict-by-default GHC extension, as well as everything with Cloud Haskell.

The Haskell ecosystem seems to be horribly broken, at least in its default current form. The symptom is that for just about every interesting program out there (let's say, git-annex or yesod), your typical "cabal install" command will fail for some reason or another.

The stackage is there to fix this, but it's not yet the default.

People are working on that and this is not really happening now if you're using sandboxes.

Incredible the amount of interesting work going on. And great very clear writeup.

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