Neil Mitchell's Blog (Haskell etc)

Summary: Shake 0.13 is out, which contains a few API changes and several new features. I've just released Shake 0.13 . There are several...

Summary: You can use Shake as a library to implement other build tools. The Shake build tool is often used to define a specific build syste...

Summary: Ninja is a build system focused on being fast. Some limited benchmarking suggests the Shake build system might be faster. The Shake...

Summary: Failing properties should throw exceptions, not return False. When testing properties in Haskell with QuickCheck we usually write...

Summary: HLint now has a real API. HLint is a tool for making suggestions about your Haskell source code, available as a standalone tool ...

Summary: I am collecting examples to show how build systems relate in terms of power. Contributions welcome. A while back I tried to classi...

Summary: I walk through optimising a Haskell string splitter to get a nice tight inner loop. We look at the Haskell code, the generated Core...

Summary: Shake can interpret some Makefiles, just like Make. Since version 0.10 the Shake build system also installs a shake executable th...

Summary: Shake 0.11 is out, upgrading should be pretty easy. Shake is a Haskell library for writing build tools, and I've just released...

Summary: Shake can predict you how long your build will take. The prediction makes use of stateful applicative streams. The Shake build syst...

Summary: Shake could corrupt the build database under rare circumstances. Last week I finally figured out why, and fixed it. The Shake build...

I wrote an article for the Communcations of the ACM which is now available on the ACM Queue , entitled Leaking Space , all about space leak...

Summary: If you use NSIS plugins along with LZMA solid compression, make sure you reference the plugins first. The NSIS Windows Installer s...

Summary: I've just released NSIS-0.2.3 which supports NSIS plugins. My NSIS library is a Haskell EDSL to make it easier to write NSIS W...

Summary: Generating graphs from Haskell modules is easy, using Haskell-src-exts and Uniplate. In my recent Uniplate talk I showed a grap...

I'll be talking at two events this month - hope to see some people there! 9 Oct 2013 - Haskell eXchange 2013 Everyone should use a G...

Summary: I wrote a simple program to detect repeated words in a file. This post gives a walk-through of how I developed it. My wife is cur...

Summary: New versions of unordered-containers cause a massive performance regression in uniplate (10x slower is typical), which I have fixed...

Summary: Haskell programmer willing to relocate to Singapore? Come work for Standard Chartered! Standard Chartered , the bank where I work...