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Re: ZuriHac 2025 Trip Report #haskell #zurihac

🕐︎ - 2025-06-17

In ZuriHac 2025 Trip Report Tristan de Cacqueray writes:

I still wish there were an official recommended way of doing mundane things, like handling HTTP request errors, to avoid wasting time figuring this out on your own.

Yes, a hundred times this - as a, still fledgling, Haskell programmer, such guidance would be ever so nice!

When you start having a bit of an overview and when you have developed a "taste", then it's easier to pick and choose. Until then it's nice to be able to put on the "learning wheels" of 'recommended ways of doing basic things'.

P.S. If every library also had a section in the documentation showing a fully working example of how it can be used ("SYNOPSIS" in CPAN terms), that would be perfect.

🕐︎ - 2025-06-17 - 0 comments

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