| 18 May 2024 |
 geekosaur | it may well be using processes, if it's doing timeout or signal stuff | 15:19:39 |
| geekosaur | threads are absolutely terrible for those | 15:19:47 |
| geekosaur | (in any language) | 15:20:00 |
|  tzlil changed their profile picture. | 16:02:07 |
 ian03gcc | Is there some program or website that has "haskell feature of the week" so that I can practice using features thayt I might otherwise not have known about | 18:41:29 |
| ian03gcc | * Is there some program or website that has "haskell feature of the week" so that I can practice using features that I might otherwise not have known about | 18:41:55 |
 Hécate | That's actually a good idea. Please tell me more how you would envision such a website | 18:44:17 |
| tzlil | In reply to@ian03gcc:matrix.org
Is there some program or website that has "haskell feature of the week" so that I can practice using features that I might otherwise not have known about https://wiki.haskell.org/Special:Random | 18:45:09 |
 sm | yes nice idea. There have been some blog post series in that style | 18:46:42 |
| sm | and the recurring "ask haskell" reddit posts | 18:50:58 |
| sm | a general This Week In Haskell would be fun too, like #thisweekinmatrix:matrix.org | 18:51:07 |
 Sean | IIRC Oliver Charles wrote a great series "21 GHC extensions in 21 days" or something to that effect | 18:51:27 |
|  demcgovern left the room. | 18:51:38 |
| Sean | I imagine it's quite dated at this point, maybe someone should do it again | 18:51:48 |
| ian03gcc | I was thinking a website that weekly persents a feature of haskell giving an introduction of what it does and some examples. Then there would be some practice problems with example solutions | 18:52:52 |
| sm | How could you make that economic ? The website could be discourse.haskell.org, for one | 18:56:50 |
| sm | You could try to crowd source the weekly posts. It would be competing with all the existing ways to discuss Haskell. Not so easy | 18:59:14 |
| sm | maybe youtube videos would get more traction | 19:00:01 |
| sm | or you could take an efficient “curator” approach - don’t produce the content, just curate what people are already putting out there and present it in nice weekly packaging | 19:06:29 |
| sm | * or you could take an efficient “curator” approach - just curate what people are already putting out there and present it in nice weekly packaging | 19:06:56 |
| sm | and while I’m here… any users of J language here ? J (awesome) is the same age as Haskell. They have a gui app for efficiently browsing discussion history - docs, wiki, mail lists, issues. Pretty slick! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLJS84u4eVc | 19:11:49 |
| geekosaur | been, uh, 30 years? more? | 19:13:17 |
| sm | wikipedia says 1990 / 34 years for both | 19:13:35 |
| geekosaur | sounds about right | 19:13:57 |
| geekosaur | played with it a bit when it came out | 19:14:05 |
| geekosaur | having played with APL a bit in 1982ish | 19:14:21 |
| sm | I’ve been exploring it the last two days. And see I did touched it 10 years ago as well | 19:15:04 |
| sm | * I’ve been exploring it the last two days. And see I did touch it 10 years ago as well | 19:15:21 |
| sm | Lots of interesting parallels between Haskell and J! Both coming from long rich prior traditions/languages | 19:16:25 |
| sm | So a ton of crystallised wisdom | 19:17:24 |
