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By: Haskell Popularity Rankings: September 2009 « Control.Monad.Writer

Haskell Popularity Rankings: September 2009 « Control.Monad.Writer — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:28:11 +0000

[...] into cabal-install’s monopoly on distribution of Haskell code… downloads for that are counted separately. QuickCheck – Automatic testing of Haskell [...]

By: Haskell Package Popularity Rankings : August 2009 « Control.Monad.Writer

Haskell Package Popularity Rankings : August 2009 « Control.Monad.Writer — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:05:41 +0000

[...] into cabal-install’s monopoly on distribution of Haskell code… downloads for that are counted separately. QuickCheck – Automatic testing of Haskell [...]

By: The Haskell Platform 2009.2.0.2 « Control.Monad.Writer

The Haskell Platform 2009.2.0.2 « Control.Monad.Writer — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:02:22 +0000

[...] mentioned last week, we have some big plans ahead, primarily working out how to regularly add more libraries from [...]

By: Michael2

Michael2 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:40:43 +0000

- “Volunteer time to maintain orphaned packages”

Is there a received list of valuable orphaned packages, or packages that might be appropriately replaced with something more up to date?

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:39:44 +0000

> I like Linux, but I grow tired of having to fuss with device drivers every few weeks

Nothing like exaggeration to make a point. (Unless your DEVICES are changing every couple weeks, which I find equally dubious.)

By: Ralf

Ralf — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:47:03 +0000

I’m not sure if these figures mean anything.
I only ever do an apt-get install haskell. But then: i don’t need the latest and greatest per se.

By: sm

sm — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:24:24 +0000

Or maybe because Haskell Wiki has got most Project Euler solutions. !! and kids want to try it out.

By: rtperson

rtperson — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:50:52 +0000

I’m not at all surprised by the figures for Windows, considering the investment that MS has recently put into functional programming. Also, given that SPJ works at MS Research, and that the first Haskell IDE was developed in Visual Studio, Haskell has a much more Windows-friendly vibe than other “academic” languages.

The other factor to consider is that Windows developers — if they haven’t worked in a *nix environment — may not have used package managers like rpm and apt-get, and so may need the “one-stop shopping” of the Haskell platform.

I’ve been very happy learning Haskell in Windows. I like Linux, but I grow tired of having to fuss with device drivers every few weeks, and between Cygwin and MSYS, I have access to the same kind of rich command-line environments that Unix users take for granted. The only headache has been the absence of native libraries like OpenGL and GTK.

By: niklas

niklas — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:21:23 +0000

> The Windows figure is pretty stunning — they really miss not having a package system I think.

The mind boggles at that number, will we see 115000 new web frameworks on hackage in a while? Or 115000 monad tutorials?

As for package systems, no, when I’m on Windows I don’t miss Ubuntu’s stale packages at all. If you have to install it yourself anyway if you want a remotely new version, what’s the point? And apps on Windows and OSX are nowadays good at not stepping on each others toes.

But of course if the package manager is purely functional then it’s cool: http://nixos.org/nixos/