Month: July 2010

Haskell Platform 2010.2.0.0 is live!

~ Don Stewart ~ 2 Comments

We’re pleased to announce the fifth release of the Haskell Platform: a single, standard Haskell distribution for everyone.

The specification, along with installers (including Windows, Apple and
Unix installers for a full Haskell environment) are available.

The Haskell Platform is a single, standard Haskell distribution for every system, in the form of a blessed library and tool suite for Haskell distilled from the thousands of libraries on Hackage, along with installers for a wide variety of systems. It saves developers work picking and choosing the best Haskell libraries and tools to use for a task.

When you install the Haskell Platform, you get the latest stable compiler, an expanded set of core libraries, additional development tools, and cabal-install – so you can download anything else you need from Hackage.

What you get is specified here.

— The Platform Infrastructure Team

Engineering Large Projects in a Functional Language

~ Don Stewart ~ 1 Comment

I had the opportunity to speak at DevNation on July 10th in Portland, and gave the following talk, an updated version of Galois’ collective experiences developing Haskell projects over the past decade. You can download the .pdf.

Abstract

Galois has been building software systems in Haskell for the past decade. This talk describes some of what we’ve learned about in-the-large, commercial Haskell programming in that time. I’ll look at when and where we use Haskell. At correctness, productivity, scalabilty, maintainability, and what language features we like: types, purity, types, abstractions, types, concurrency, types!

We’ll also look at the Haskell toolchain: FFI, HPC, Cabal, compiler, libraries, build systems, etc, and being a commercial entity in a largely open source community.