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Keera Studios
Company blog · keera.co.uk/blogprogramminggames
Keera Studios is the company blog at keera.co.uk, writing about programming and games. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Keera Studios' posts about building mobile games in Haskell, including a talk on maintainable mobile Haskell games. They cite them as evidence that this niche use is practical.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Ok here's a talk about making Haskell games that took place last week: https://keera.co.uk/blog/2019/09/16/maintainable-mobile-hask... I don't deny that making games in Haskell is niche, but it's certainly possible. Frag was just an example I remembered (ten years is recent for an old git like me).
Comment linking /blog/2019/09/16/maintainable-mobile-haskell-games-talk/
on “Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]”Submitted Haskell on Android as a story · 153 points
HN discussion> For example there is almost no information about how to write a smartphone videogame in haskell, even if it possible to trasnpile it to C or to Javascript. These guys are doing it pretty seriously: http://keera.co.uk/blog/all-posts/ And frankly a smartphone videogame is a pretty specialized use case; a lot of pretty mainstream languages (perl?) don't have a good story for how to do that. In fact I've never heard o…
Comment linking /blog/all-posts/
on “Learn You a Haskell for Great Good (2008)”Submitted From 60 Frames per Second to 500 in Haskell as a story · 103 points
HN discussionI can offer some opinion as developer in a small indie game company (shameless self-promotion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23565739 ). Supporting iOS is super hard for us. The Apple market is heavily controlled and supervised. We have had apps rejected because we included links to the Android equivalent in the description (same price, so no big reason to switch platforms when you are already on our iTunes p…
Comment linking /2020/06/17/safe2play-caring-for-privacy-in-an-interconnected-world/
on “Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out of the App Store”Submitted Building a reactive calculator in Haskell as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Haskell Game Enpuzzled Released for Android and iOS as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Haskell on Android and iOS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keera Studios Releases Magic Cookies (Haskell Game) on Google Play as a story · 1 points
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