Welcome to issue 294 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from April 27 to May 3, 2014 Quotes of the Week * roconnor: oh no. edwardk and I can never meet otherwise it will be revealed that I am actually him in a very short costume. * edwardk: I'm a product mostly of old Wadler monad papers and TaPL with some Cale thrown in. * benzrf: zippers are fun / they are zippy! / anyway bye Top Reddit Stories * Nikki and the Robots (FOSS Haskell game) has been greenlit on Steam Domain: steamcommunity.com, Score: 130, Comments: 7 Original: [1] http://goo.gl/VgbYzB On Reddit: [2] http://goo.gl/rsKKLn * So I re-implemented Freenet in Haskell, what now? Domain: self.haskell, Score: 85, Comments: 34 Original: [3] http://goo.gl/yLHLD4 On Reddit: [4] http://goo.gl/yLHLD4 * Meditations on learning Haskell from an ex-Clojure user Domain: bitemyapp.com, Score: 79, Comments: 113 Original: [5] http://goo.gl/twtYw2 On Reddit: [6] http://goo.gl/JICvqo * The printer Haskell deserves Domain: chrisdone.com, Score: 77, Comments: 24 Original: [7] http://goo.gl/x8VL1J On Reddit: [8] http://goo.gl/AvMuIo * Erik Meijer: The Curse of the Excluded Middle Domain: queue.acm.org, Score: 76, Comments: 93 Original: [9] http://goo.gl/QbpX9M On Reddit: [10] http://goo.gl/IpliOH * My road to Haskell Domain: alfredodinapoli.com, Score: 74, Comments: 40 Original: [11] http://goo.gl/6oHuNf On Reddit: [12] http://goo.gl/7ER3JC * The Identity monad trick Domain: chrisdone.com, Score: 58, Comments: 62 Original: [13] http://goo.gl/mpL1fa On Reddit: [14] http://goo.gl/Z2fMeB * ekg 0.4 released Domain: blog.johantibell.com, Score: 57, Comments: 5 Original: [15] http://goo.gl/5XZ86C On Reddit: [16] http://goo.gl/Ef3ShV * Evan Czaplicki: Stop saying "the ___ monad" Domain: groups.google.com, Score: 54, Comments: 56 Original: [17] http://goo.gl/36WH0W On Reddit: [18] http://goo.gl/mzcSZi * Thinking in Types Domain: robots.thoughtbot.com, Score: 47, Comments: 28 Original: [19] http://goo.gl/k4bRuD On Reddit: [20] http://goo.gl/G1dbac * Disemboweling WAI (aka gutting out conduit) Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 46, Comments: 102 Original: [21] http://goo.gl/EQ6hJi On Reddit: [22] http://goo.gl/CQefwI * GHC Status Report, May 2014 Domain: ghc.haskell.org, Score: 44, Comments: 14 Original: [23] http://goo.gl/UbUiIx On Reddit: [24] http://goo.gl/SXY310 * What Do You Think Is Impeding Haskell From Getting Mainstream Adoption? Domain: forbes.com, Score: 44, Comments: 237 Original: [25] http://goo.gl/Qn77nm On Reddit: [26] http://goo.gl/EIQOBr * Pattern Synonyms for Dates and an IRC Bot Domain: fpcomplete.com, Score: 43, Comments: 15 Original: [27] http://goo.gl/LSThZm On Reddit: [28] http://goo.gl/sE3y6p * Elm 0.12.1 - Fast Immutable Arrays Domain: elm-lang.org, Score: 40, Comments: 6 Original: [29] http://goo.gl/rbo80l On Reddit: [30] http://goo.gl/FoC4un * PureScript 0.5 Released Domain: github.com, Score: 38, Comments: 24 Original: [31] http://goo.gl/3cffJq On Reddit: [32] http://goo.gl/AtjJPK * Why category theory matters Domain: rs.io, Score: 38, Comments: 36 Original: [33] http://goo.gl/LQCAk1 On Reddit: [34] http://goo.gl/8xZ9bo Top StackOverflow Questions * What is a good reason to use a type signature for functions when the compiler can infer the types votes: 14, answers: 4 Read on SO: [35] http://goo.gl/48G9iZ * Difference between Monad and Applicative in Haskell votes: 9, answers: 5 Read on SO: [36] http://goo.gl/dL3a4s Until next time, [37]+Daniel Santa Cruz References 1. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=107105028 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24fw5k/nikki_and_the_robots_foss_ha... 3. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24hjak/so_i_reimplemented_freenet_i... 4. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24hjak/so_i_reimplemented_freenet_i... 5. http://bitemyapp.com/posts/2014-04-29-meditations-on-learning-haskell.html 6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24adiv/meditations_on_learning_hask... 7. http://chrisdone.com/posts/the-printer-haskell-deserves 8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/246iir/the_printer_haskell_deserves... 9. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2611829 10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/243fm4/erik_meijer_the_curse_of_the... 11. http://www.alfredodinapoli.com/posts/2014-04-27-my-road-to-haskell.html 12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/246qty/my_road_to_haskell/ 13. http://chrisdone.com/posts/identity-monad 14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24cq0u/the_identity_monad_trick/ 15. http://blog.johantibell.com/2014/05/ekg-04-released.html 16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24g513/ekg_04_released/ 17. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/elm-discuss/1acyOfxvasA 18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24kvwh/evan_czaplicki_stop_saying_t... 19. http://robots.thoughtbot.com/thinking-in-types 20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24k2wz/thinking_in_types/ 21. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2014/04/disemboweling-wai 22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/246e39/disemboweling_wai_aka_guttin... 23. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/May14 24. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/246fos/ghc_status_report_may_2014/ 25. http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/04/29/what-do-you-think-is-impeding-h... 26. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24ddu3/what_do_you_think_is_impedin... 27. https://www.fpcomplete.com/user/icelandj/Pattern%20synonyms 28. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24fvyz/pattern_synonyms_for_dates_a... 29. http://elm-lang.org/blog/announce/0.12.1.elm 30. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24jo48/elm_0121_fast_immutable_arra... 31. https://github.com/purescript/purescript/releases/tag/v0.5.0 32. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/244z52/purescript_05_released/ 33. http://rs.io/2014/04/30/why-category-theory-matters.html 34. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/24nhfc/why_category_theory_matters/ 35. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23401698/what-is-a-good-reason-to-use-a-t... 36. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23342184/difference-between-monad-and-app... 37. https://plus.google.com/105107667630152149014/about