Welcome to issue 210 of the HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell community. This release covers the week of November 27 to December 3, 2011.
Announcements
Heinrich Hordegen announced a tentative 2012 meeting schedule for Munich Haskell group.
New and Updated Projects
- data-timeout (Mikhail Vorozhtsov) Allows one to specify time units for timeouts and convert between them.
- Netwire (Ertugrul Soylemez; 3.0.0) Major API change.
- monad-control (Bas van Dijk; 0.3) New and improved API.
Quotes of the Week
- Jafet: They're not nasty; their niceness is just distributed over more people
- copumpkin: U NEED MOANAD
- xplat: i have a feeling that trying to write an interesting dependently-typed program in Shen at any time in the near future would be like trying to host a holiday dinner starting with an empty lot, 2x4s, a stack of window panes, some cables and wiring boxes, sheets of drywall, disconnected appliances, roof shingles, rolls of insulation and bags of concrete
- Axman6: {-# PRAGMA ThisShitNeedsMoarFast #-}
Top Reddit Stories
- Name Your Type Variables!. From (amateurtopologist.com), scored 71 with 38 comments.
- Insane Haskell Professor on Lambda Calculus. Wait for it.... From (youtube.com), scored 66 with 17 comments.
- criterion 0.6 produces shiny new performance reports. From (bos.github.com), scored 63 with 8 comments.
- [commit: base] master: Add traceStack :: String -> a -> a. From (haskell.org), scored 48 with 5 comments.
- Elm: functional reactive web-programming (compiles to html, css, js). Just added reactive values, basic canvas support, and new interactive examples.. From (elm-lang.org), scored 45 with 19 comments.
- Snap 0.7 released. From (snapframework.com), scored 41 with 1 comments.
- Haskell Communities and Activities Report - November 2011 edition. From (haskell.org), scored 35 with 0 comments.
- "fix' f = f (fix' f)" vs. "fix f = let x = f x in x". From (groups.google.com), scored 33 with 15 comments.
- Announcing cabal-src: solve (some of) cabal dependency hell. From (yesodweb.com), scored 32 with 15 comments.
- aeson 0.4: easier, faster, nicer. From (github.com), scored 31 with 18 comments.
- Package authors: Please use Packdeps!. From (yesodweb.com), scored 24 with 10 comments.
- Slides from my guest lecture at Stanford. From (blog.johantibell.com), scored 22 with 14 comments.
Top StackOverflow Questions
- How to write a Haskell function that takes a variadic function as an argument votes: 28, answers: 1
- Functional lenses votes: 18, answers: 2
- Haskell : An example of a Foldable which is not a Functor? votes: 17, answers: 2
- How does IncoherentInstances work? votes: 17, answers: 1
- Minimum specification for Haskell library type classes? votes: 16, answers: 2
- Expressive and composable error types votes: 16, answers: 1
- Distributed Haskell state of the art in 2011? votes: 16, answers: 2
- Is it possible to implement liftM2 in Scala? votes: 15, answers: 1
- Are Haskell FlexibleInstances a stable extension to the language? votes: 15, answers: 1
- Is Milner let polymorphism a rank 2 feature? votes: 13, answers: 4
Until next time,
Daniel Santa Cruz
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