So where do we stand?
- I'm happy for us to define GHC2024 now.
- I do not feel strongly about the exact list of extensions... for me
this is very user-driven.
- The votes were interesting. I would also love to see stats on
extension usage, derived from trawling Hackage. I'm sure this has been
done, probably many times. Do we have data?
- Several features were suggested that got more votes than the ones
currently in the GHC2024 proposal. Why exclude them from our committee
voting? E.g. RecordWildCards seems popular.
- Some extensions come down to taste. Personally I don't like
`BlockaArguments` but clearly quite a lot of people do. So I don't really
object.
- Other extensions are "big": MonoLocalBinds and TypeFamilies in
particular. I'm OK with including them>
- I would argue (mildly) against DefaultSignatures. It's a mature and
stable extension, but a pretty tricky, speicalised and ad-hoc one. Data
from usage in Hackage might affect my opinion!
Simon
On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 at 18:30, Joachim Breitner
Hi all,
Am Mittwoch, dem 22.11.2023 um 22:11 +0100 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
Am Mittwoch, dem 22.11.2023 um 21:25 +0100 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
I guess I could at least do a simple poll on discourse with the currently proposed extensions.
Now at https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc2024-community-input/8168. Not perfect (e.g. number of options on Discourse are limited), but it’s something.
after a week, we got 137 people to vote. This is of course not representative of our full target audience, but still useful input. For example, I didn’t expect LambdaCase to be that popular (84%). Other interesting bits:
* DerivingVia is the most popular extension that we do _not_ have on the ballot for 2024, with 62%. I think it's reasonable, I woudn’t mind maturing it a for another edition cycle or so; there was talk about improving error messages.
* Lots of discussion about BlockArguments, but mostly along the lines of “I use it (in Haskell or other languages), it’s great” vs. “It don’t use it, it looks weird to me.”. My hypothesis is that it is no harder to get used to than application-by-juxtaposition or $ or other keywords, so I’m still in favor.
Anyways, have a look if you are curious, and take it into account in your voting if I want.
So where do we stand? Does everyone in the committee have the information they need to cast a vote? Should we just go ahead with voting, or would some committee members maybe share an assessment of the currently proposed extensions at
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/joachim/ghc2024/proposal... to help people decide?
Cheers, Joachim
-- Joachim Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de http://www.joachim-breitner.de/
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