This is a bit tangental, but... One problem I sometimes have is not
knowing the status of things. E.g., you read about Associated Types, and
then you go "hey, is this implemented now? is it being implemented soon?
etc."
(Don't all rush in and tell me about ATs - I'm only picking it as an
example. Others include, say, the GHC debugger, stream fusion, parallel
arrays, etc etc etc.)
Maybe I'm looking wrong, but it often isn't obvious to me how to figure
out the answer to the question "does all this cool stuff work yet?" I'm
not really sure what we could change to fix that though...
the Haskell Community & Activity Reports were created in part
to answer that kind of question. within the limitations of 6-monthly
editions (too frequent for some projects, too infrequent for others),
they have tried to do ever since November 2001, the latest dating
from May 2007:
http://www.haskell.org/communities/
since contributors are encouraged to look ahead in plans, as well
as look back on achievements, the interval of not knowing where
things stand is actually shorter than 6 months. provided that people
remember to write and submit entries about their favourite haskell
projects when the editor comes calling before November/May!-)
claus
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