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IOSim on Hackage
by coot＠coot.me 26 Aug '23

26 Aug '23

Hello dear Haskell-Cafe, I realised that I haven't shared here that we (the networking team of IOG) released io-sim on Hackage. We found and fixed countless bugs thanks to it, including some concurrent ones. Here's a blog post which I wrote some time ago: https://engineering.iog.io/2023-04-14-io-sim-annoucement https://hackage.haskell.org/package/io-sim https://hackage.haskell.org/package/io-classes Cheers, Marcin Szamotulski

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[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.7 is now available
by Zubin Duggal 26 Aug '23

26 Aug '23

The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of GHC 9.4.7. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.4.7 The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of GHC 9.4.7. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at [downloads.haskell.org](https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.4.7). This release is primarily a bugfix release addressing some issues found in 9.4.6. These include: * A bump to bytestring-0.11.5.2 allowing GHC to be bootstrapped on systems where the bootstrap compiler is built with the `pthread_condattr_setclock` symbol available (#23789). * A number of bug fixes for scoping bugs in the specialiser, preventing simplifier panics (#21391, #21689, #21828, #23762). * Distributing dynamically linked alpine bindists (#23349, #23828). * A bug fix for the release notes syntax, allowing them to built on systems with older python and sphinx versions (#23807, #23818). * ... and a few more. See the [release notes] for a full accounting. We would like to thank Microsoft Azure, GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool, Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, Haskell Foundation, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release management over the years. Finally, this release would not have been possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work comprise this release. As always, do give this release a try and open a [ticket][] if you see anything amiss. Happy compiling, - Zubin [ticket]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new [release notes]: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/9.4.7/docs/users_guide/9.4.7-notes.html

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[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.6 is now available
by Ben Gamari 26 Aug '23

26 Aug '23

The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of GHC 9.4.6. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.4.6 This release is primarily a bugfix release addressing some issues found in 9.4.6. These include: * Many bug fixes for the simplifier, preventing compiler panics, loops and incorrect code generation (#22761, #22549, #23208, #22761, #22272, #23146, #23012, #22547). * Bug fixes for the typechecker involving newtype family instances, making type equalities more robust and bugs having to do with defaulting representation polymorphic type variables (#23329, #23333, #23143, #23154, #23176). * Some bug fixes for code generation, particularly on the aarch64 backend, including adding more memory barriers for array read operations (#23541, #23749). * Some bug fixes for windows builds, ensuring the reliablility of IO manager shutdown and a bug fix for the RTS linker on windows (#23691, #22941). * A bug fix for the non-moving GC ensuring mutator allocations are properly accounted for (#23312). * A bug fix preventing some segfaults by ensuring that pinned allocations respect block size (#23400). * Many bug fixes for the bytecode interpreter, allowing a greater subset of the language to be interpreted (#22376, #22840, #22051, #21945, #23068, #22958). * ... and a few more. See the [release notes] for a full accounting. As some of the fixed issues do affect correctness users are encouraged to upgrade promptly. We would like to thank Microsoft Azure, GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool, Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, Haskell Foundation, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release management over the years. Finally, this release would not have been possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work comprise this release. As always, do give this release a try and open a [ticket] if you see anything amiss. Happy compiling, - Zubin & Ben [ticket]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new [release notes]: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/9.4.6/docs/users_guide/9.4.6-notes.html

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[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.8.1-alpha3 is now available
by Ben Gamari 24 Aug '23

24 Aug '23

The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the third alpha prerelease of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-alpha3 GHC 9.8 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including: * Preliminary support the `TypeAbstractions` language extension, allowing types to be bound in type declarations [TypeAbstractions]. * Support for the `ExtendedLiterals` extension, providing syntax for non-word-sized numeric literals in the surface language [extended-literals] * Improved rewrite rule matching behavior, allowing limited matching of higher-order patterns * Better support for user-defined warnings by way of the `WARNING` pragma [warnings] * The introduction of the new `GHC.TypeError.Unsatisfiable` constraint, allowing more predictable user-defined type errors [unsatisfiable] * Implementation of the export deprecation proposal, allowing module exports to be marked with `DEPRECATE` pragmas [deprecated-exports] * The addition of build semaphore support for parallel compilation; with coming support in `cabal-install` this will allow better use of parallelism in multi-package builds [jsem] * More efficient representation of info table provenance information, reducing binary sizes by over 50% in some cases when `-finfo-table-map` is in use A full accounting of changes can be found in the [release notes]. This alpha includes roughly a dozen changes relative to alpha 2, including what we believe should be nearly the last changes to GHC's boot libraries. We would like to thank GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool, Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, the Haskell Foundation, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release management over the years. Finally, this release would not have been possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work comprise this release. As always, do give this release a try and open a [ticket] if you see anything amiss. Happy compiling, ~ Ben [TypeAbstractions]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0425-d… [extended-literals]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0451-s… [unsatisfiable]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0433-u… [warnings]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0541-w… [deprecated-exports]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0134-d… [jsem]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0540-j… [release notes]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-alpha3/docs/users_guide/9.8.1-notes…

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[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.8.1-alpha2 is now available
by Ben Gamari 23 Aug '23

23 Aug '23

The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the second alpha prerelease of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-alpha2 GHC 9.8 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including: * Preliminary support the `TypeApplications` language extension [type-binders], allowing types to be bound in type declarations. * Support for the `ExtendedLiterals` extension, providing syntax for non-word-sized numeric literals in the surface language [extended-literals] * Improved rewrite rule matching behavior, allowing limited matching of higher-order patterns * Better support for user-defined warnings by way of the `WARNING` pragma [warnings] * The introduction of the new `GHC.TypeError.Unsatisfiable` constraint, allowing more predictable user-defined type errors [unsatisfiable] * Implementation of the export deprecation proposal, allowing module exports to be marked with `DEPRECATE` pragmas [deprecated-exports] * The addition of build semaphore support for parallel compilation; with coming support in `cabal-install` this will allow better use of parallelism in multi-package builds [jsem] * More efficient representation of info table provenance information, reducing binary sizes by over 50% in some cases when `-finfo-table-map` is in use A full accounting of changes can be found in the [release notes]. This alpha includes around two dozen bug-fixes relative to alpha 1. We would like to thank GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool, Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, the Haskell Foundation, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release management over the years. Finally, this release would not have been possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work comprise this release. As always, do give this release a try and open a [ticket] if you see anything amiss. Happy compiling, ~ Ben [type-binders]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0425-d… [extended-literals]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0451-s… [unsatisfiable]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0433-u… [warnings]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0541-w… [deprecated-exports]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0134-d… [jsem]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0540-j… [release notes]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-alpha2/docs/users_guide/9.8.1-notes… [ticket]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can I get 'forall (a :: k). Typeable a => Dict (Typeable k)'?
by Ryan Scott 23 Aug '23

23 Aug '23

To respond to your original point: > Morally I think that > > class Typeable (a :: k) > > should have been > > class Typeable k => Typeable (a :: k) > > This has been considered before, although it is not entirely straightforward to implement. See [1] and [2], which track the idea of having GHC solve these constraints automatically, without the need for users to explicitly reach for `typeRepKind`. Best, Ryan ----- [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/14190 [2] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/16627

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Can I get 'forall (a :: k). Typeable a => Dict (Typeable k)'?
by Tom Ellis 23 Aug '23

23 Aug '23

Morally I think that class Typeable (a :: k) should have been class Typeable k => Typeable (a :: k) If I'm wrong, could someone please elaborate why? If I'm right, please read on ... That would be a breaking change, but could we at least get kindable :: forall (a :: k). Typeable a => Dict (Typable (a :: k)) in the meantime? Tom

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[ANN] avif - libavif bindings on Hackage
by Vanessa McHale 13 Aug '23

13 Aug '23

Hello all, I have release avif, a Haskell wrapper around libavif compatible with JuicyPixels. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/avif Cheers, Vanessa McHale

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[ANNOUNCE] mig - new library to write composable web-servers
by Anton Kholomiov 09 Aug '23

09 Aug '23

I'm happy to announce the release of a new library for web-servers. It offers simple and concise functions to build servers from small parts. Servers are monoids, and we can aggregate them with functions like `mconcat`. Main features: * lightweight library * expressive DSL to compose servers * type-safe handlers * handlers are encoded with generic haskell functions * built on top of WAI and warp server libraries. For DSL design I wanted to touch the middle ground between scotty (being small and simple, but imperative) and servant (being composable, but somewhat advanced on type-level features) I like scotty for being very simple and servant for being composable, type-safe and how functions are used as handlers which provides decoupling of Web-handlers from application logic. But sometimes scotty feels too imperative and lacks a servant's composability. And servant with type-level magic and huge errors can feel too complicated. So I wanted to create something in the middle. Something composable and simple at the same time. And be able to use arbitrary haskell functions as handlers. There are only two functions to combine servers. And types of inputs and outputs are encoded with newtype-wrpappers with phantom types which provide type-safety. It's very first release. So feedback is welcome and I'm sure there are places to improve. I hope that you will enjoy the lib. links: * [github](https://github.com/anton-k/mig) * [hackage](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/mig-0.1.0.1) * [examples]( https://github.com/anton-k/mig/tree/main/examples/mig-example-apps) * [example of a handle pattern app]( https://github.com/anton-k/handle-pattern-mig-app) * [example of a reader pattern app]( https://github.com/anton-k/reader-pattern-mig-app) Cheers, Anton

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[Call for submissions TFPiE 2024] Trends in Functional Programming in Education - January 9 2024, Seton Hall University, USA
by Peter Achten 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

TFPIE 2024 Call for papers https://wiki.tfpie.science.ru.nl/TFPIE2024 (January 9th 2024, West Orange, NJ, USA, co-located with TFP 2024 at Seton Hall University) TFPIE 2024 welcomes submissions describing techniques used in the classroom, tools used in and/or developed for the classroom and any creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: FP and beginning CS students FP and Computational Thinking FP and Artificial Intelligence FP in Robotics FP and Music Advanced FP for undergraduates FP in graduate education Engaging students in research using FP FP in Programming Languages FP in the high school curriculum FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics FP and Philosophy The pedagogy of teaching FP FP and e-learning: MOOCs, automated assessment etc. Best Lectures - more details below In addition to papers, we are requesting best lecture presentations. What's your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. The length of the presentation should be comparable to that of a paper. In addition, the speaker can provide commentary on effectiveness or student feedback. Submissions Potential presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or a draft paper (up to 20 pages) in EPTCS style. The authors of accepted presentations will have their preprints and their slides made available on the workshop's website. Papers and abstracts can be submitted via easychair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2024 After the workshop, presenters are invited to submit (a revised version of) their article for the formal review. The PC will select the best articles for publication in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Articles rejected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. Important Dates Submission deadline: December 26th 2023, Anywhere on Earth Notification: by December 30th 2023 (Note: submissions will be evaluated on a rolling basis, so earlier submissions will receive an earlier response) TFPIE Registration Deadline: TBA Workshop: January 9th 2024 Submission for formal review: April 19th 2024, Anywhere on Earth. Notification of full article: May 24th 2024 Camera ready: June 28th 2024 Program Committee - TBD Stephen Chang (Chair) - UMass Boston, USA Registration information See https://wiki.tfpie.science.ru.nl/TFPIE2024 for updated information. Registration and attendance are mandatory for at least one author of every paper that is presented at the workshop. Presenters will have their registration fee waived. Only papers that have been presented at TFPIE may be submitted to the post-reviewing process.

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