Posted on 01/04/2012

Haskell Communities and Activities Report, 21st edition. An overview

Haskell Communities and Activities Report is a status report on Haskell community as a whole. It’s released twice a year and contains a whole bunch of interesting stuff. I’ve just read the most recent (November 2011) report. Here’s an overview of things I’ve found the most interesting:

  • There’s a Haskell plugin for Eclipse. So far I’ve been using Emacs with Haskell mode but I’d be happy to see a decent plugin for Eclipse. I’ll be testing it to see how it works.

  • At the same time I’m planning to enhance my Haskell experience in Emacs by using ghc-mod

  • The Monad Reader is a web magazine about Haskell.

  • There is a Debian Haskell Group. I’ve been considering switching to Debian for some time now and it’s good to know there is a good Haskell support for Debian (although I’d probably still stick to the precompiled binaries available from GHC site).

  • HEAT is The Haskell Educational Advancement Tool. I’ll have to look into it and see if it has a good educational potential (for teaching others, not myself).

  • There is a Haskell Natural Language Processing community.

  • Ericsson together with two universities (one in Sweden, one in Hungary) develops Feldspar: Functional Embedded Language for Digital Signal Processing and Parallelism. Find out more.

  • If you want to do bioinformatics stuff in Haskell then Biohaskell might be of interest to you.

There’s a lot more of in the report: games, web applications, compilers, practical applications of Haskell, research and user groups. You can read the whole report here.

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