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jaror, 7 months ago to haskell in [Well-Typed Blog] GHC activities report: August–September 2023

Oh, I meant to just link the blog post directly: https://well-typed.com/blog/2023/10/ghc-activities-report-august-september-2023/

mangoiv, 9 months ago to haskell in GHC 9.4.6 is now available

@jaror this fixes my bug! Yeyyyy

jaror, 9 months ago

Are you one of the lucky ones to find a segfault? :P

mangoiv, 9 months ago

@jaror yes very nasty, I reported an issue and three bugs were found investigating it. Romes and Ben did great work doing so. It were multiple issues with pointer tagging.

mangoiv, 9 months ago

@jaror it also exhibited a bug in the byte code interpreter which had been found before

jaror, 6 months ago to haskell in [ANN] GHCup-0.1.20.0 released

It's great to see windows TUI support so soon after the vty release! Especially since Windows users are not known for their fondness of command lines. I hope this has lowered one barrier to entry to Haskell and will give a more pleasant experience to many Windows users.

Blamemeta, 6 months ago to haskell in [Haskell Foundation] Welcome to our new Executive Director, José

Haskell is still a thing? Who even uses haskell?

jaror, 6 months ago

It's still going strong. It's a pretty unique language. I use it among many other hobbyists and academics. Some well known companies like GitHub, Meta, and Tesla and of course many smaller companies use it too. Why aren't you using it?

jaror, 8 months ago to haskell in GHC 9.8.1-alpha4 is now available

This is the first time there is a fourth alpha release. I guess that means the final release will be more stable. I'm looking forward to it!

mangoiv, 8 months ago to haskell in An opportunity that I couldn't pass up

@jaror my bet is on him joining the lean4 fro

mangoiv, 8 months ago

@jaror https://lean-fro.org/

jaror, 8 months ago

That certainly sounds like a golden opportunity for him.

6d03, 9 months ago to haskell in CLC Election September 2023

@jaror "Candidates should be able to... #haskell "

sure i can haskell.

jaror, 9 months ago

haha, kbin automatically ellides the body of external links if it is too long. See the discourse post for all details.

jaror, 9 months ago to haskell in Community Survey: Removing cabal's nix integration

As a NixOS user, I'm in favor. If I wanted nix integration, I'd just install the required packages via nix.

jaror, 10 months ago to haskell in [ANN] GHCup-0.1.19.5 release candidate (GHCJS cross support)

I thought running GHC JS output required nodejs. Does GHCup also manage that or is that an implicit requirement?

maerwald, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

HelloJS is a wrapper that calls nodejs. Also see https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/javascript-backend/building#compiling-hello-world

GHCup doesn't manage system dependencies.

jaror, 10 months ago to haskell in Bytestring-0.11.5.0 and bytestring-0.12.0.0

Interesting that they consider removing a rewrite rule to be a breaking change.

jaror, 10 months ago to haskell in [RFC] Bumping recommended GHC to 9.4.5 in GHCup

I was still mainly using 9.2.8 since that is still the default on nixos unstable. But I think 9.4.5 seems stable enough to recommend.

jaror, 11 months ago to haskell in r/Haskell is going dark

I've always disliked Reddit for being proprietary and centralized (let alone the practical problems like code formatting). The community is great, but the platform is not.