Haskell Weekly

Come `@` me bro! In this episode we review Zac Wood's post about the type applications language extension.

Special guest Matt Parsons talks to us about his upcoming book, Production Haskell.

Is Maybe problematic? Well, maybe. Robert Peszek thinks that Maybe is overused. Cameron Gera and Taylor Fausak break it down and consider alternatives.

Christian Charukiewicz at Foxhound Systems wrote a list of reasons to prefer Haskell for building production systems. Cameron Gera and Taylor Fausak review the list and share their experience at ITProTV.

Using Adam Wespiser's blog post as a jumping off point, Cameron Gera and Taylor Fausak look back on a year of Haskell.

Are you curious about how Parsec is implemented behind the scenes? Cameron Gera and Taylor Fausak follow Antoine Leblanc's walkthrough.

Can Haskell's deriving mechanism be simplified? Cody Goodman, Cameron Gera, and Taylor Fausak walk through the changes that Matt Parsons suggested.

Newtypes let you give things names, but is that type safety? Andres Schmois, Cameron Gera, and Taylor Fausak explore a blog post by Alexis King.

Even well-designed languages have rough edges. Cameron Gera and Taylor Fausak review some of the bad parts of Haskell.

Does the idea of -XGHC2021 excite you? Cameron Gera and Taylor Fausak work through this proposed set of language extensions.