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Arcadian Visions Blog
Personal blog · arcadianvisions.com/blogprogramming
Arcadian Visions Blog is a personal blog at arcadianvisions.com about programming. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “GHC Development: OutsideIn”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on modern OpenGL, offered as an example of handling stateful APIs in Haskell. The commenter says they quickly found and skimmed it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- GHC Development: OutsideIn2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-11
What Hacker News says?
How does Haskell fare with large projects that use APIs that are inherently stateful, like OpenGL? Don't things get messy and ugly as the pure world of Haskell is being tainted? The pure world of Haskell does not get tainted. Monads help manage the inherent messiness better. As for your question, perhaps this glut example I quickly found and skimmed will help: http://www.arcadianvisions.com/blog/2011/modern-opengl-w…
Comment linking /blog/2011/modern-opengl-with-haskell.html
on “Why hasn't Haskell taken over the world? And the curious case of Go”Submitted GHC Compiler Development: OutsideIn as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GHC Development: OutsideIn as a story · 2 points
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