Hasufell's blog

TOC Opinion What is good use of LLMs Using LLMs to build things What now?

TOC How to Reacting to failures All put together A few notes Prior Art How to When new GHC versions are released, I often have to go through all my library CI systems and update the ghc version matrix in my github action.

After working on GHCup for 6 years, I’ve realized that it’s obsolete.

This guide is aimed at Haskellers who seek to improve their understanding of String types, be it beginners or seasoned developers.

Motivation Following the excellent post from Tom Sydney “Getting your Haskell executable statically linked with Nix”, I want to present an alternative approach.

Misunderstandings Over the past few years, there have been recurring questions or misunderstandings about GHCup.

I’m pleased to announce that the Haskell type type FilePath = String has a successor, which was first discussed many years ago as the Abstract FilePath proposal (AFPP).

Motivation At GHCup I recently put a lot of effort into reducing the dependency footprint to improve build times.