Haskell Weekly

Issue 160

Welcome to another issue of Haskell Weekly! Haskell is a safe, purely functional programming language with a fast, concurrent runtime. This is a weekly summary of what’s going on in its community.

Featured

  • Announcing the Haskell Weekly podcast by Taylor Fausak

    We select interesting articles from the Haskell Weekly newsletter to talk about. Each episode uses a conversational two-host format, typically with me and another ITProTV engineer. We try to keep episodes short, so they run for about 15 minutes. We publish new episodes every week.

  • Competitive Programming in Haskell: Scanner by Brent Yorgey

    There is another common class of problems, however, which follow this pattern: “The first line of the input consists of an integer T. Each of the next T lines consists of …” That is, the input contains integers which are not input data per se but just tell you how many things are to follow.

  • Deprecating API endpoints with Servant by Ben Weitzman

    At Co-Star, we use servant to write our backend, and we’ve had a lot of success using the type of our API to help us generate tests and documentation. I wanted to extend some of servant’s behavior to help us model deprecated endpoints as well.

  • Hoogle XSS Vulnerability by Neil Mitchell

    On Friday afternoon I got an email from Alexander Gugel with the subject line “Non-persistent XSS vulnerability on hoogle.haskell.org” — never a good thing to get.

  • Profiling in Haskell for a 10x Speedup by Jake Zimmerman

    I’ll walk through the problem I was trying to solve, my slow first solution, and how I used Haskell’s profiling tools to find and fix some egregiously slow parts of the code.

  • Purely Functional Games by Gil Mizrahi

    How I built a game in Haskell — pure functional style.

  • What is a functor? by Eric Normand

    Functors are an operation that has a structure preserving property. But what is that? Are these things practical? Does it have anything to do with the real world? Of course!

  • What Is A Monad? by Steven Watson

    Monads are often a point of frustration for learners of Haskell. The question of what a monad is leads to the question of why a monad is. The question of why a monad is leads to the question of what a monad is.

  • Writing Custom Optimization Passes by Sandy Maguire

    I’ve been paying a lot of attention to performance in polysemy. Getting it to be fast has been really hard. It’s clearly possible, but for the longest time I was afraid I’d need to fork the compiler. And that didn’t seem like a thing that would attract a large-user base.

Jobs

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In brief

Package of the week

This week’s package of the week of optparse-generic, a library that auto-generates an optparse-applicative-compatible Parser from any data type that derives the Generic interface.

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