[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly

[Matthew Pickering]

Hi Taylor,

Please keep posting this to this list. I think I missed the first 50
editions of your well edited summaries!

The plain text version is perfect.

Matt


On 1 Jun 2017 23:23, "Taylor Fausak" <taylor at fausak.me> wrote:

Hello haskell-cafe! I am the Haskell Weekly editor. In the past, some
people have expressed interest in receiving my newsletter on this
mailing list. Is that something I should set up?

If you're curious about Haskell Weekly, please check out the latest
issue, which was published today:
<https://haskellweekly.news/issues/57.html>

I've also included issue 57 as plain text here. If you like what you
see, head over to <https://haskelweekly.news> and subscribe!

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# Haskell Weekly

## Issue 57

Welcome to another issue of Haskell Weekly! Haskell is a purely
functional programming language that focuses on robustness, concision,
and correctness. This is a weekly summary of what’s going on in its
community.

- Realizing Hackett, a metaprogrammable Haskell
  <https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2017/05/27/realizing-
hackett-a-metaprogrammable-haskell/>
  > Almost five months ago, I wrote a blog post about my new programming
language, Hackett, a fanciful sketch of a programming language from a
far-off land with Haskell's type system and Racket's macros. [...] Hackett
is not only real, it's working, and you can try it out yourself!

- Imperative Haskell
  <http://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2017/05/29/imperative-haskell/>
  > Why don't we do this all the time, when Haskell is at least a
serviceable imperative language? Because writing imperative programs is
hard! They don't compose as well, have less useful type signatures, and are
harder to reason about. Getting away from those things is why we have
Haskell to begin with!

- A Haskell cross compiler for Android
  <https://medium.com/@zw3rk/a-haskell-cross-compiler-for-
android-8e297cb74e8a>
  > Finally launching and running the application on the device, we are
greeted with "Hello from Haskell". While the utility of this application is
certainly questionable it illustrates the essential steps required to
build, link and run an Android application calling a native Haskell
function.

- Smart data with conduits
  <https://mmhaskell.com/blog/2017/5/29/smart-data-with-conduits>
  > If you're a programmer now, there's one reality you'd best be getting
used to. People expect you to know how to deal with big data. The kind of
data that will take a while to process. The kind that will crash your
program if you try to bring it all into memory at the same time.

- Wire is hiring a Software Backend Developer (Operations) in Berlin,
Germany (ad)
  <https://wire.softgarden.io/job/1022464?l=en>
  > Wire is an open source, end-to-end encrypted messenger for personal and
business use. For our development center in Berlin we are hiring two
Backend Haskell Developers. As Software Developer Backend Operations you
will maintain our infrastructure, ensuring that it runs 24/7. Check out our
jobs at wire.com/jobs and our open source code on github.com/wireapp.

- What we talk about when we talk about types
  <https://joyofhaskell.com/posts/2017-05-31-is-vs-has.html>
  > These dialogues somewhat pedantically dissect what we mean when we say
a type is an instance of a type class or a type has an instance of a type
class and why. Through the course of conversation, we touch on the nature
of types, type constructors, and type classes, which led to us talking
about math, set theory and category theory, and what they have to do with
types and type classes.

- The partial options monoid
  <https://medium.com/@jonathangfischoff/the-partial-options-monoid-pattern-
31914a71fc67>
  > Parsing options is not the hardest problem. However, if you do not
create a pattern the rest of your team can follow, your program can become
a tangled mess of random file reads, environment variable lookups and
unpredictable defaulting. The Monoid class is a rock solid abstraction for
combining options.

- Playing with lens-aeson
  <https://www.snoyman.com/blog/2017/05/playing-with-lens-aeson>
  > That works, but it's far from inspiring. We're declaring a Color data
type simply for the purpose of writing a type class instance. But it feels
pretty heavyweight to have to declare a data type and make a type class
instance for just one use site.

### Packages of the week

Several interesting packages were announced this week. Instead of
picking one to feature, all four are this week's packages of the week!

- double-pendulum-simulation
  <https://github.com/lotz84/double-pendulum-simulation>
  Simulates and renders a double pendulum system.

- legion
  <https://github.com/aviaviavi/legion>
  Implements a simple block chain server that synchronizes nodes over
  the network.

- prettyprinter
  <https://github.com/quchen/prettyprinter>
  Aims to end the Wadler/Leijen zoo dilemma by being a modern,
  well-documented pretty printer.

- sitepipe
  <https://github.com/ChrisPenner/SitePipe>
  Generates static sites with plain values and less magic.
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