[Haskell-cafe] The State of GHC 8.10
Travis Cardwell
travis.cardwell at extrema.is
Sun Aug 22 07:26:40 UTC 2021
Hi Zubin,
Thank you for message!
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 6:58 PM Zubin Duggal wrote:
> As the oldest currently active branch, it is currently a priority to
> retire the 8.10 branch of GHC from active development as soon as
> possible.
With talk of retiring the 8.10 branch, I think it might be worthwhile to
remind folks that GHC 8.10(.6) is still the most recent release that is
suitable for production use. GHC 9.0.1 is *not* suitable for production
use due to major issues, and GHC 9.0.2 is not ready yet.
Major GHC 9.0.1 issues:
* https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2021-March/133540.html
* https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/19345
* https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/19976
GHC 9.0.2 progress:
* https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/milestones/367
Thank you to the GHC developers for great progress. Four active
branches does indeed sound daunting. I hope that the GHC 8.10.7 release
goes well, and I am really looking forward to a production-ready release
of GHC 9 whenever it is ready!
Cheers,
Travis
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