Minutes of Sunday's meeting of the "Staged Working Group"
Hi GHC devs, On Sunday I realised that there were many different people around at ZuriHac that are very knowledgeable about staged metaprogramming and macro systems (outside GHC, even). I really want a good staged metaprogramming story in Haskell (but don't know much about it or what I could contribute), and so I called everyone into a very spontaneous meeting, dubbed the "Staged Working Group". The purpose of the whole meeting was rather nebulous (staged, even); the only goal for me was to throw involved people in one room to have a focussed discussion (rather than lumping together with a subset of the people and then dissolving in the hall way) and to talk about different efforts in the community. In the end, I think we got a lot clearer picture about the challenges involved. We are very fortunate that Ben has kept minutes with useful pointers: https://edit.smart-cactus.org/u__IGA1bTd2DpulYmlnxaw Note that I don't intend to hold regular meetings or something of the sort; it was essentially a one time thing (but perhaps we'll have a 2.0 meeting at next year's ZuriHac). We loosely agreed to keep everyone posted on ongoing efforts in the direction of staged metaprogramming (and macros) by writing short status reports to this mailing list. Thanks to everyone who is involved in improving (Typed) Template Haskell and who was there on Sunday! Sebastian___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
GHCi tags generation: the end
Hello everyone, As the three-releases deprecation cycle has come to an end, GHC 9.8 marks the end of the integrated tags generation feature that used to live in GHCi. Started in 2020, the deprecation proposal showed that many people didn't know about its existence, and favoured external tools. It is also a burden that is removed from the shoulders of GHC developers, as it used to create friction with other features like UnboxedSums. You can find the proposal here: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/19884 and the migration wiki page here: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/commentary/GHCi/Tags Thanks to everyone who was involved in this, especially Emily Martins. Cheers, Hécate -- Hécate ✨ 🐦: @TechnoEmpress IRC: Hecate WWW: https://glitchbra.in RUN: BSD ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
