[Haskell-cafe] GSoC Retrospective

[Johan Tibell]

I'm very happy with Adam's work strict Haskell. StrictData is already in
HEAD and will be part of 8.0. Adam is working (as his studies permit) of
finish the rest. Perhaps if we're really lucky we'll have the Strict pragma
as well in 8.0.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Dominic Steinitz <dominic at steinitz.org>
wrote:

> In past years, Gwern did an outstanding job of summarising the GSoC
> proposals and how well they had done:
> http://www.gwern.net/Haskell%20Summer%20of%20Code
>
> Here are the proposals for this year. Perhaps students or their mentors
> could comment on how successful their projects have been? I realise this is
> a very poor substitute for Gwen’s analyses but it would better than nothing.
>
>
>    - A Strict language pragma for GHC - Adam Sandberg Eriksson
>    <https://github.com/adamse>
>    - STM Data Structures Implementation
>    <https://gist.github.com/Alllex/439480b7e80303f19ddc> - Alex Semin
>    - Implementation of Layered Gramamar of Graphics
>    <https://gist.github.com/AjayRamanathan/c84a4641836700a2547b> - chinu
>    <https://github.com/AjayRamanathan/Plot>
>    - Implementing Version Comparison for Cabal Packages - Craig Roche
>    <https://github.com/cdxr>
>    - Improving Hackage Discoverability
>    <http://dzackgarza.com/mockup/main.html> - D. Zack Garza
>    <https://github.com/dzackgarza>
>    - Darcsden improvements <http://darcs.net/GSoC/2015-Darcsden> - Daniil
>    Frumin <https://github.com/co-dan>
>    - Pursuit enhancements
>    <https://gist.github.com/hdgarrood/0a389937149453c69e03> - Harry
>    Garrood <https://github.com/hdgarrood>
>    - Improvements For HBLAS And Adding LAPACK Bindings. - JuejiYang
>    - A standalone functional parser for CommonMark
>    <https://gist.github.com/Jubobs/7a9298eeaf02bcefbc35> - Julien Cretel
>    <https://github.com/Jubobs>
>    - Refactor program with HLint suggestions
>    <http://mpickering.github.io/gsoc2015.html> - Matthew Pickering
>    <https://github.com/mpickering>
>    - Replication back-end for acid-state - Max Voit
>    - Native Haskell Type Encoding for LiquidHaskell
>    <https://gist.github.com/spinda/b261167303515cc8a1d9> - Michael Smith
>    <https://github.com/spinda>
>    - Exhaustiveness Checker for PureScript - Nicolas Del Piano
>    <https://github.com/nicodelpiano>
>    - Fast splittable pseudorandom number generator for System.Random
>    <https://gist.github.com/nkartashov/e46fd146b1df2d79aaf3> - Nikita
>    Kartashov <https://github.com/nkartashov>
>    - Interactive widgets in IHaskell
>    <https://github.com/sumitsahrawat/gsoc/blob/master/2015/ihaskell.pdf>
>     - Sumit Sahrawat <https://github.com/sumitsahrawat>
>    - Improvements to yesod-devel - urbanslug
>    <https://github.com/urbanslug>
>    - Implement nix-like package management features in cabal
>    <https://gist.github.com/fugyk/37510958b52589737274> - Vishal Agrawal
>    <https://github.com/fugyk>
>    - Haddock improvements - Łukasz Hanuszczak <https://github.com/mrhania>
>
>
> Dominic Steinitz
> dominic at steinitz.org
> http://idontgetoutmuch.wordpress.com
>
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