Haskell Foundation 2026 Update
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Haskell Foundation 2026 Update
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#2Glad to see Simon Marlow didn't just vanish into Facebook.
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#3this sounds like a nice non prescriptive direction. jose is a pretty cool dude. pre covid we theoretically were gonna poke a defining a memory model of ghc haskell c— / hs / core , but life intervened
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#4How is the Haskell Foundation doing these days? Are we worried about its future?
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#5Really like this language. I would love more if we can make developing production code easier.
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#6I heard of HVM recently, is that still related to Haskell or has that become its own thing?
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#7I heard of HVM recently, is that still related to Haskell or has that become its own thing?
It is just a runtime, no? I have only ever heard about it as something to run their own bend programming language.
Are people targeting it as a runtime for Haskell as well?
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#8Developer exercise is still lacking in Haskell ecosystem.
Slow build times, deployment to Linux when developing on macos still pain. Deployment is pain specially on commodity VPS.
Go is very easy to cross compile and deploy.
But Haskell is better for a few things, but I've hardtime deploying it
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#9The thought crosses my mind that Haskell may be uniquely suited for AI coding using a very small context window (cheap). Haskell encourages small functions and no global state. So you may be able to capture all the relevant context for editing a Haskell function within a few hundred or few thousand tokens. That would be better than some other languages. Plus the strong typing could help AI agents catch errors.
I have not played around with it to see how that plays out with agentic coding. But it does seem like an interesting idea.
Re: Haskell Foundation 2026 Update
#10The thought crosses my mind that Haskell may be uniquely suited for AI coding using a very small context window (cheap). Haskell encourages small functions and no global state. So you may be able to capture all the relevant context for editing a Haskell function within a few hundred or few thousand tokens. That would be better than some other languages. Plus the strong typing could help AI agents catch errors. I have…
I suspect that the compact nature of the syntax would require more tokens spent "thinking" to get decent results. It might be more efficient for simple code though. Either way worth testing. Surely someone must've set up a "how well LLMs handle Xlang" benchmark suite.