Ben Gamari

@bgamari
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I work on the Glasgow Haskell Compiler among other things as a partner and Haskell consultant at Well-Typed.

I love my turtle, hiking, sailing, and making things.

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After a long wait, GHC 9.14.1-rc1 is now available. This includes an important fix which ensures compatibility with macOS 26 and later. We expect that this same fix will be backported to GHC 9.12 and 9.10 in the coming months.

Happy Haskelling!

#haskell #ghc #release

https:/ /www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20251030-ghc-9.14.1-rc1-released.html

GHC 9.14.1-alpha3 is now available!

This was a considerably longer process that than expected for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that MacOS 26 has broken our linking toolchain. A fix for this will be coming in the next prerelease, release candidate 1.

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-9-14-1-alpha3-is-now-available/13104

GHC 9.14.1-alpha3 is now available

The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the third alpha release of GHC 9.14.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org. GHC 9.14 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including: Significant improvements in specialisation: The SPECIALISE pragma now allows use of type application syntax The SPECIALISE pragma can be used to specialise for expression arguments as well as type arguments. Spe...

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GHC 9.14.1-alpha2 is now available

The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the second alpha prerelease of GHC 9.14.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org. GHC 9.14 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including: Significant improvements in specialisation: The SPECIALISE pragma now allows use of type application syntax The SPECIALISE pragma can be used to specialise for expression arguments as well as type argume...

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GHC 9.14.1-alpha1 is at long last available: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-9-14-1-alpha1-released/12786

This is the first of what will likely be three alphas, although on a somewhat more condensed schedule than usual due to the late start to the pre-release process.

As always, we would appreciate your testing.

GHC 9.14.1-alpha1 released

The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the first alpha prerelease of GHC 9.14.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org. GHC 9.14 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including: Significant improvements in specialisation: The SPECIALISE pragma now allows use of type application syntax The SPECIALISE pragma can be used to specialise for expression arguments as well as type argumen...

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Mamdani: Save your money. Endorse me. I have +45 favorability with male voters

Dem Party: We meant young male voters

Mamdani: I have +73 favorability with men under 45

Dem Party: We're not endorsing you dude. Go away. Now, why is our favorability is -54? Let's spend $20M on wealthy consultants to figure it out!

Better infrastructure, fewer surprises. We’re raising $6K for a dedicated ARM server to support #Haskell’s infrastructure - CI, backups, and more. Let’s build infra you can reliably pattern match on. Every contribution helps!

Donate: https://donorbox.org/infrastructure-independence
Read more: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/infrastructure-independence/12419

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Historically, the Haskell community has relied on a mix of cloud providers and self-hosted servers for our core infrastructure (Hackage, Stackage, GHC, CI, etc.). More recently the Haskell Infrastructure team has completed a migration of many of i...

Senator Murkowski just saved the Big Beautiful Bill

She switched her vote to yes giving republicans the 50 - 50 split which allows JD Vance to tiebreak

She immediately told reporters she hopes congress will vote it down.

Up to 18.5 MILLION Americans could lose Medicaid coverage because of this

Republicans are cowards

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled ... was convincing internet communities to switch from email lists / IRC / another open standard to Slack / Discord. The latest example of a “it's only free while we say it's free" is CNCF’s / Kubernetes's Slack - https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/communication/slack-migration-faq.md - who it appears have *4 days* to backup their history (for a server with 100,000s of users)

Neither Slack nor Discord are reasonable, serious, professional, options for open community discussion. They are either too expensive, and/or involve inappropriate advertising. And who knows when Discord will start pulling this kind of behaviour, too, requiring large communities to pay?

The problem is today when anyone says "can't we just use an email list?" they are pooh-pooh'ed as being horribly out of touch. Hence why even the linked FAQ describes Discord as the only likely exit plan for Kubernetes. What a mess.

community/communication/slack-migration-faq.md at master · kubernetes/community

Kubernetes community content. Contribute to kubernetes/community development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

GHC 9.10.2 release candidate 1 is now available for your testing. This is a big release for a minor release; far too many bug fixes to list. As always, please do open a ticket if you findanything amiss.

Happy Haskelling!

#haskell