Ask HN: Popular open source tool originally written in Haskell?

6 points·calebjosue··7 comments

Is there any open source tool (Bonus points: Being popular) originally written in Haskell you guys can point me to?

Thanks!

I use espial (https://github.com/jonschoning/espial) for bookmarking since pinboard went unmaintained several years ago.

Thank you @armchairhacker, @dave4420, @zargon.

The reason I've asked is because (And I am not totally sure about this [I am a neophyte, sorry if I say something silly), it seems to me that at some point functional programming (After all the mental contortions) feels like imperative programming. And I found all these applicative style, point-free style terms.

"Why functional programming matters" is on my reading list (later this year), my main interest in the topic is related on how programs can be written in the most simple and concise way, where code is what matters and not the programmer's cleverness. Compiler people go through... You know what, nobody asked me. Let's turn this into a blog entry instead.

In the meantime, thank you very much!!! I will definitively take a look at those projects.

PostgREST: https://postgrest.org/

Hadolint

ShellCheck: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

Off the top of my head: Pandoc and Hasura are both written in Haskell.

xmonad window manager

IHP (Integrated Haskell Platform), except I don’t know if it’s popular, but very ambitious

Hasura

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