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For what it's worth, I've been using Haskell in production at Bitnomial, a financial exchange, and LLMs + Haskell is an extremely productive combo. Since Opus 4.6, LLMs have been p…

Note that Scarf is not moving away from Haskell for performance-sensitive applications [0], which was the immediate question I had reading this. [0]: https://discourse.haskell.org/…

This is a critical piece of information to convince me to switch to this. I'm quite interested though! Also, what's the context of "Built in Canada"? What's the point of mentioning…

Chair of the HF here -- things are going quite well, actually. We have great sponsors who come back year after year, the HF has been spending more to make infrastructure more relia…

We're always happy to hear about pain points! For example, one thing that is a friction point at my own job is knowledge of tooling for performance tuning and optimization. It's no…

Chair of the Haskell Foundation here -- funny to see this on the HN front page! Not mentioned in the update is that the Haskell Foundation is moving towards a model that already ex…

I will die on this hill: tech firms that mandated 5 days in the office was about soft layoffs, rather than a principled stance on individual performance under WFH. My "evidence" is…

What is that singular phenomenon? What can result in blaming both capitalism and socialism, for example?

I don't know if it's related, but there's been a recent effort [0] within Github to move to Azure after the Microsoft acquisition [0]: https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize…

This is the first release of any Haskell debugger, as far as I know. It coincides with the release of v9.14 of the de-facto standard Haskell compiler, GHC

Wait, it's not obvious to me why this is quackery?

It's unsettling to read that my software job is entirely dependent on all of this, seemingly unsustainable, work.

Why did you use the term "fled"? Any interesting story? From the outside, I would love to participate in semiconductor manufacturing.