Haskell Weekly News: Issue 309

Welcome to issue 309 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from September 28 to October 4, 2014

Quotes of the Week

• Uh... I'ma have to read the IRC logs... No good quotes @remember'd

Top Reddit Stories

• Announcing needle: ASCII-fied arrow notation. From (scrambledeggsontoast.github.io), scored 103 with 119 comments.
• How we might abolish Cabal Hell, part 1. From (well-typed.com), scored 95 with 69 comments.
• After some failed attempts to learn Parsec I came across this incredibly patient tutorial and now I'm writing parsers!. From (github.com), scored 79 with 17 comments.
• Neil Mitchell's Haskell Blog: Why Traversable/Foldable should not be in the Prelude. From (neilmitchell.blogspot.co.il), scored 71 with 289 comments.
• Tutorial: Implementing highly efficient data structures with Monoids and Fingertrees. From (codementor.io), scored 47 with 37 comments.
• There is No Haskell Topology. From (immanence.org), scored 45 with 32 comments.
• Introduction to Low Level Haskell Optimization - Dan Doel. From (youtu.be), scored 44 with 2 comments.
• Turn an optparse-applicative program into a CGI program!. From (github.com), scored 39 with 10 comments.
• Yesod 1.4 released. From (yesodweb.com), scored 36 with 1 comments.
• Updating Auto-Update. From (yesodweb.com), scored 36 with 20 comments.
• Type-safe Routing for Spock Web Framework released. From (github.com), scored 32 with 39 comments.
• Lattice-Based Data Structures for Deterministic Parallel and Distributed Programming (related to CRDTs; implementation in Haskell). From (composition.al), scored 30 with 9 comments.
• A non-recursive sorting algorithm. From (haskellexists.blogspot.com), scored 27 with 36 comments.
• Dijkstra monads. From (why-lambda.blogspot.co.uk), scored 25 with 4 comments.
• Improving Haskell-related documentation. From (self.haskell), scored 23 with 62 comments.
• Haskell, Monads and Purity • via Hacker News. From (jelv.is), scored 23 with 11 comments.
• FP Complete is hiring: Systems engineer for cloud and cluster work. From (fpcomplete.com), scored 21 with 11 comments.
• The future of the haskell2010/haskell98 packages for GHC 7.10. From (haskell.org), scored 21 with 22 comments.
• ANN: Nomyx V0.7, the only game where you can change the rules. From (self.haskell), scored 20 with 7 comments.
• Let's Build a Browser Engine in Haskell: part 5. From (hrothen.github.io), scored 19 with 6 comments.

Top StackOverflow Questions

• How fundamentaly different push-pull and arrowized FRP are? votes: 10, answers: 0
• What are hashes (#) used for in Haskell's library's source? votes: 10, answers: 1
• What is the inverse of a promise? votes: 9, answers: 3
• Is there a default polymorphic unit type haskell votes: 7, answers: 1
• nvcc + c2hs on OS X 10.9.5 votes: 7, answers: 1
• How to sort a list using partial order in Haskell? votes: 7, answers: 2
• Relationship between forward and backward map in Isomorphism (Lens package) votes: 6, answers: 1
• How to implement a generic neural network efficiently in Haskell? votes: 6, answers: 0
• How do I unify two or more Signals in elerea? votes: 6, answers: 1
• Ambiguous type variable fixed with type equality constraint votes: 6, answers: 1

Until next time,
+Daniel Santa Cruz