Issue 6 2016-06-09

• A Sticky Stringy Quandary

  This is not only a bad representation, it’s quite possibly the least efficient (non-contrived) representation of text data possible and has horrible performance in both time and space.

• Intero for Emacs

  Complete interactive development program for Haskell.

• Hierarchy of documentation dysfunction

  There isn’t a single body of knowledge, or even a consistent idiomatic style, that is common to most of the libraries on Hackage.

• How Elm Slays a UI Antipattern

  You can do this in JavaScript of course, but you won’t.

• Delude

  A superset of Prelude that allows for more intuitive notation in some cases.

• What is the point of Typeable?

  It creates a proliferation of Typeable constraints.

• Isn’t it redundant for Control.Lens.Setter to wrap types in functors?

  Since the same effect can be achieved in a simpler manner, why Control.Lens wraps things in functors?