The Haskell Cast

Simon Marlow, author of Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell and co-developer of GHC, lets us know what he’s been up to at Facebook. He shares with us the project he’s been working on in Facebook and how Haskell is gaining traction inside Facebook’s diverse engineering culture. We also talk about his recent book and what he’ll be researching in the future.

Simon Peyton Jones joins us to discuss recent developments in GHC, parallel programming, and computer science education. We start by discussing some upcoming changes to Cabal and the module system and then look at recent developments in parallelizing Haskell programs. Finally, Simon shares what he’s been working on recently: a national curriculum of computing in England and the Computing at School (CAS) Working Group.

Don Stewart, co-author of Real World Haskell and author of many Haskell Stack Overflow answers, joins us to discuss working with Haskell at large scale: how to organize, deploy, and test more than 1 million lines of Haskell code. He also shares some insights on hiring, training, and working with a large team of Haskell developers. To start the episode, we discuss performance and optimization of Haskell programs.

Edward Kmett joins us to talk about lenses, comonads, and the future of the Haskell core libraries. He also shares with us how he discovered Haskell, his academic background, and advice for new Haskell developers being exposed to the math concepts inside of his libraries for the first time.