Software Engineer at Facebook, Haskell enthusiast, GHC boiler-room technician
Cambridge, UK
Joined February 2009
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Did you know that Haskell is used in production at Meta? 🤯
In our latest article, we talk with Simon Marlow from Meta about their Haskell projects – Glean and Haxl – and his thoughts about Haskell in the industry.
Read on our blog:
serokell.io/blog/haskell-in-…
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Calling all #functionalprogrammers especially those based in Australia or nearby timezones! This is a top event with great speakers @deanwampler @simonmar & @kmett #Scala #Erlang #Haskell
Are you ready for YOW! Lambda Jam 2022?
The schedule is out, and we kick off the 2-day digital conference on Tuesday 17 May.
Register and join us for everything #FunctionalProgramming: bit.ly/3kTMQV9
#YLJ22
ALT YOW! Lambda Jam 2022 speaker lineup
Simon Marlow retweeted
Do you want to work on PyTorch? The PyTorch team at Facebook is hiring! Remote in many locations is OK and most things we do are open source. Reach out to me in DMs if you're interested.
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We've added Haskell to the list of programming languages supported by Thrift and open sourced the hsthrift package. Haskell Thrift is compatible with all fbthrift languages, allowing your projects to freely communicate with other services in any language. engineering.fb.com/2021/02/0…
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Great news! Thanks, @simonmar, for giving us the opportunity to help with some of the work leading up to this release.
We just open-sourced our Haskell Thrift Compiler: engineering.fb.com/2021/02/0…
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The GHC Steering Committee would like to know whether you would like having a new language extension -XGHC2021 that covers lots of existing ones. New -XGHC20xx extensions would come out every 1, 2, or 3 years (cadence under debate). Express your opinion at reddit.com/r/haskell/comment…
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Is there any intermediate abstraction between applicative functors and monads? And if yes, what is it? In a new paper with @geo2A, @simonmar and @dimenix we explore "selective functors", which are essentially applicative functors with branching: staff.ncl.ac.uk/andrey.mokho…
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For the last year or so @_osa1 and I have been working on a concurrent mark/sweep garbage collector for GHC #haskell designed for low-latency applications.
MuniHac 2018: Keynote: A low-latency garbage collector for GHC youtu.be/7_ig6r2C-d4 via @YouTube
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Duckling, our Haskell-based text-to-structured-data parser, has graduated from our open source incubator program! github.com/facebook/duckling
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Check out how we hotswap compiled code within a running Haskell process and see the demo on GitHub... fb.me/Pd7VbjKS
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Simon Peyton Jones earns the @BCS Distinguished Fellowship award for contributing to the advancement of computing. bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/57…
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At @simonmar's talk at Chalmers, we learned that `git push` pushes to production, which Simon described as #youonlyliveonce :D #YOLO – at Gothenburg, Sweden
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LambdaConf 2016 did the wrong thing by turning a blind eye to racist bigotry. You may want to sign, too: statement-on-lambdaconf.gith…
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A group statement about the state of LambdaConf 2016:
statement-on-lambdaconf.gith…
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The CUFP 2016 CFP is available here: cufp.org/2016cfp. We'd love to see past speakers return this year. Please spread the word!