Don't Forget: Melbourne Compose Group - 6pm Thurs Oct 17: John Walker - Tooling around with Haskell. In-person@Kathleen Syme Centre, Carlton

[John Walker]

Hi All,
Thursday is our next meetup, here's a little more on the topic of the day:

So you've learned the Haskell basics and now you want to build something. You'll need to find and install dependencies, resolve versioning issues, type check, navigate, build and run your code, but how?

Haskell tooling has come a long way over recent years, but there are still multiple paths to achieving the above. Stack, Stackage, Cabal, cabal-build, hpack, ghci, ghcid, ghcup, HLS and recent newcomers Static-ls and ghciwatch can seem like an alphabet soup of complementary and competing tools to the uninitiated.

This discussion will be part history lesson, part experience report and part demo. I'll give an outline of the development timeline for some of these tools, describe how and why I've landed on the tool set I have and give a brief demo. To the Haskell curious, you'll come away with an understanding of the capabilities of these tools and how to use them. For experienced Haskellers, please come and fill us in on how your setup works. For Nix users, please be outraged to the point of volunteering to take a future session.

Hope to see you there,
John