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Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0 released - includes GHC 7.4.1

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Re: Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0 released - includes GHC 7.4.1

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Post by currywurst »

I'm still tippy-toeing in the Haskell waters .. but the availability of seemingly mature "elbow-grease" tools like profilers, debuggers and code coverage evaluators is what attracts me to Haskell.

What is the state of the art for the new kids on the block like Clojure, Scala and Go ?

Re: Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0 released - includes GHC 7.4.1

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Post by njs12345 »

Release notes here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.1/html/users_guide/relea...

Some good stuff in this release --- preliminary ARM support is exciting for obvious reasons, and the new kinds flags are fun if you like that sort of thing (see http://blog.omega-prime.co.uk/?p=127 for some examples)

Re: Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0 released - includes GHC 7.4.1

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Post by fiatmoney »

currywurst wrote: post #2

I'm still tippy-toeing in the Haskell waters .. but the availability of seemingly mature "elbow-grease" tools like profilers, debuggers and code coverage evaluators is what attracts me to Haskell. What is the state of the art for the new kids on the block like Clojure, Scala and Go ?

Clojure, at least, can use most of the Java profiling & debugging tools. Under the hood, the class names shown get a little baroque but it's still recognizably relatable to the source.

Re: Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0 released - includes GHC 7.4.1

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Post by aristidb »

njs12345 wrote: post #3

Release notes here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.1/html/users_guide/relea... Some good stuff in this release --- preliminary ARM support is exciting for obvious reasons, and the new kinds flags are fun if you like that sort of thing (see http://blog.omega-prime.co.uk/?p=127 for some examples)

Those are actually the release notes for GHC (the "standard" Haskell compiler) itself, which is shipped as part of the platform, but is not it.

The platform is basically a bundle of GHC, cabal and some other build tools, and some "sanctioned" Haskell libraries.

Re: Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0 released - includes GHC 7.4.1

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Post by dmaz »

currywurst wrote: post #2

I'm still tippy-toeing in the Haskell waters .. but the availability of seemingly mature "elbow-grease" tools like profilers, debuggers and code coverage evaluators is what attracts me to Haskell. What is the state of the art for the new kids on the block like Clojure, Scala and Go ?

Go can be debugged with gdb > 7.1 and is profiled with pprof.

Re: Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0 released - includes GHC 7.4.1

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Post by pnathan »

The Haskell Platform landing page is consistently beautiful. One of the prettiest landing pages I've come across. It lends a great deal of credibility to a technology when the up-front page looks like it was taken care of diligently. Contrast that to a page with only some text, a tarball link, and a mailing list (no names given, surely the reader can think of an example).

I applaud the Haskell community for taking care of the non-technicals on their flagship download.

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