Haskell talks at Mercury!

It's finally time for another meetup! Come watch three great Haskell talks at Mercury's brand new office.

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Building a startup with a 100% Haskell backend (Max Tagher)

An overview of Mercury’s experience building a startup with a 100% Haskell backend. If you have any Haskell-in-production questions you’d like answered in this talk, respond to this Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/maxtagher/status/1173790762913259520?s=21

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ghc-source-gen: Generating Haskell code with the GHC API (Judah Jacobson)

The GHC API lets you parse and manipulate Haskell code while supporting the latest compiler features. Unfortunately, that library is less friendly towards generating code from scratch. The ghc-source-gen package is a layer on top that reduces some of the noise involved. It provides a set of straightforward combinators that are consistent across several major compiler versions. This talk will give an overview of ghc-source-gen, show a real-world use case, and discuss the library's challenges and design tradeoffs.

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Haskell madlibs (Alan Malloy)

"Did you know that the Summer Olympics might happen twice this year because of magnetic field reversal? Apparently it's getting worse and no one knows why."

Haskell's powerful abstractions make it possible to perform relatively complicated operations with code that looks quite simple. In this talk I give a brief tour of a program I wrote a couple years ago to generate silly sentences like the one in the introduction, by implementing a general engine for flow charts like the one presented in xkcd #1930.