Issue 8 2016-06-23

• Contributing to GHC

  An underlying issue is one of effort budget. GHC has essentially no full-timers, unlike many open-source projects.

• Async exceptions, STM, and deadlocks

  Catch the synchronous ones and recover, never recover from asynchronous exceptions.

• Token authentication with Servant

  It’s precisely because HasServer is a type class with an associated type that we can extend it without needing to modify the servant-server library itself.

• What can I do to help the String/ByteString/Text problem?

  Get text into base, for starters.

• Annoy r/haskell in one sentence

  I tried this in Haskell and it’s got the same problems as JavaScript: [] == “”.

• Best practices for distributing a Haskell application and updating it

  I want the executable to be easy to install and upgrade, even for non-Haskellers.

• Why did making Haskell lazy have an impact on performance?

  Simon Peyton Jones says that making Haskell Lazy helped them with resource-constraints on the machines they had at the time.