Minutes of Sunday's meeting of the "Staged Working Group"

[Nicolas Frisby]

I enjoyed reading the notes; thanks for sharing.

One thing that would help me: Can we get last names in the notes in
addition to first names? Or even just add a list of the (mentioned)
attendees?

Thanks!

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 14:26 Sebastian Graf <sgraf1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi GHC devs,
>
> On Sunday I realised that there were many different people around at
> ZuriHac that are very knowledgeable about staged metaprogramming and macro
> systems (outside GHC, even).
> I really want a good staged metaprogramming story in Haskell (but don't
> know much about it or what I could contribute), and so I called everyone
> into a very spontaneous meeting, dubbed the "Staged Working Group".
> The purpose of the whole meeting was rather nebulous (staged, even); the
> only goal for me was to throw involved people in one room to have a
> focussed discussion (rather than lumping together with a subset of the
> people and then dissolving in the hall way) and to talk about different
> efforts in the community.
> In the end, I think we got a lot clearer picture about the challenges
> involved.
>
> We are very fortunate that Ben has kept minutes with useful pointers:
> https://edit.smart-cactus.org/u__IGA1bTd2DpulYmlnxaw
>
> Note that I don't intend to hold regular meetings or something of the
> sort; it was essentially a one time thing (but perhaps we'll have a 2.0
> meeting at next year's ZuriHac).
> We loosely agreed to keep everyone posted on ongoing efforts in the
> direction of staged metaprogramming (and macros) by writing short status
> reports to this mailing list.
>
> Thanks to everyone who is involved in improving (Typed) Template Haskell
> and who was there on Sunday!
> Sebastian
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