Neil Mitchell's Blog (Haskell etc)

Summary: I've just released ghcid , which interactively shows the errors in your project on each save. I'm please to announce ghcid ...

Summary: It's not obvious how to generate suitable Open 3D Viewer models, but with the right tools it isn't hard. The Open 3D Viewer...

Summary: I've just released a new version of Shake, with a --demo feature and an underlying continuation monad. I want to release v1.0 i...

Summary: I spotted a few things using Shake, which I had nothing to do with. In the past few days I have come across several things using th...

Summary: In moving Shake to continuations, exceptions were the biggest headache. I figured out how to somewhat integrate continuations and e...

Summary: The Safe library now has exact versions of take / drop , with twelve functions implemented on top of a generalised splitAt . The S...

Summary: I have converted over 10,000 lines from Make to Shake. Here are some tips I learnt along the way. Make is the de facto build system...

Summary: Shake is a monadic build system, and monadic build systems are more powerful than applicative ones. Several people have wondered ...

Summary: Continuations are confusing. Here we solve a simple problem (that is at the heart of the Shake build system) using continuations. I...

Summary: I've released ghc-make , which is an alternative to ghc --make . I've just released v0.2 of ghc-make ( on Hackage , on Git...

Summary: Shake can now be configured to check file hashes/digests instead of modification times, which is great if you frequently switch git...

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...