Haskell Spring Meetup

Greetings Haskellites! It's time for another meetup!
This time we'll be at Da Appy Place, conveniently conveniently located near S:t Eriksplan.

Agenda

• 17:30 Doors open
• 18:00: Talk: Jack Ek—Building a Distributed Functional Operating System
• 18:30: Food, drinks and mingle
• 19:00: Janus Troelsen—Keep Your Haskell Dependencies Fresh
• 20:30: Closing time

Talks

Jack Ek—Building a Distributed Functional Operating System

Pallas is a maximalist vision for statically verified declarative programming. Types, logic and compositional thinking are the best tools we have to build computing systems that are reliable and reconfigurable. But as soon as you need to interact with systems outside the paradigm, your expressive and predictive powers drop dramatically. The solution is simple: don’t do that. Bring more areas into the paradigm, and liberate programming from the von Neumann paradigm. Build a purely functional operating system—an operating function.

Pallas is also a maximalist vision for personal computing. The goal is to deliver the availability and scalability of the cloud, with the flexibility and non-extractive nature of personal computers. By being network-first, anti-app, and increasing the expressive power of tiny developer teams, the amount of labor needed to incrementally create, deploy and operate networked software drops dramatically, making it possible to offer new functionality without running massive infrastructure operations or bootstrapping social networks.

Link: https://opfn.co/

Janus Troelsen—Keep Your Haskell Dependencies Fresh

How do you keep your Haskell dependencies and CI up to date? This talk will show off Hackage features, Github Actions, and integration of Stack and Cabal with the Renovate bot.

Speakers

Jack Ek
Jack Ek is a functional p2p programmer. He has over a decade experience with Haskell and has previously worked on p2p projects such as Ethereum and MakerDAO.

Janus Troelsen
Janus Troelsen is a Haskell dev, currently working for Flipstone. He grew up in Denmark, studied in Darmstadt. He's especially interested in improving the tooling situation with Haskell.

Food
Food and beverages will be served at the event—when you RSVP to the event you will be asked for allergies or dietary preferences. Note that we may need 48 hours advance notice for special food orders.