* GHC now accepts type syntax in expressions as part of [GHC Proposal #281]
I feel like you buried the lede :)
Many thanks to everyone involved!
On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 6:51 AM Zubin Duggal
The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the first alpha release of GHC 9.12.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at [downloads.haskell.org ][].
We hope to have this release available via ghcup shortly.
GHC 9.12 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including:
* The new language extension [OrPatterns] allowing you to combine multiple pattern clauses into one.
* The [MultilineStrings] language extension to allow you to more easily write strings spanning multiple lines in your source code.
* Improvements to the OverloadedRecordDot extension, allowing the built-in `HasField` class to be used for records with fields of non lifted representations.
* The [NamedDefaults] language extension has been introduced allowing you to define defaults for typeclasses other than `Num`.
* More deterministic object code output, controlled by the `-fobject-determinism` flag, which improves determinism of builds a lot (though does not fully do so) at the cost of some compiler performance (1-2%). See #12935 for the details
* GHC now accepts type syntax in expressions as part of [GHC Proposal #281].
* ... and many more
A full accounting of changes can be found in the [release notes][]. As always, GHC's release status, including planned future releases, can be found on the GHC Wiki [status][].
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.
[release notes]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.12.1-alpha1/docs/users_guide/9.12.1-note... [status]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/GHC-status [downloads.haskell.org]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.12.1-alpha1 [ticket]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new [OrPatterns]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0522-or... [MultilineStrings]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0569-mu... [GHC Proposal #281]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0281-vi... [NamedDefaults]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0409-ex...
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