Convert scribbles into LaTeX symbols using Detexify

The Detexify web application is an interesting project that allows users to scribble symbols using the mouse and see similar-looking LaTeX symbols. Detexify is written in Haskell.

Microsoft Research may fund real-world adoption of Parallel Haskell

Duncan Coutts at Well Typed announced earlier this year that Microsoft Research had indicated that they might fund a 2-year project to push real-world use of Parallel Haskell.

The status of this project is not known but this would be an exciting development, not least because Well Typed have a history of attacking Haskell's real barriers to adoption.

"Dynamic Extension of Typed Functional languages" by Don Stewart

Don Stewart of Galois has kindly made his PhD thesis on the Dynamic Extension of Typed Functional Languages publicly available.

Haskell Platform 2010.2 released with GHC 6.12.3

A new version of the Haskell Platform was recently released. Excitingly, this is the first release to include a version of GHC that includes bug fixes to the garbage collector that makes the use of mutable arrays feasible including hash tables.

Haskell at Google (Switzerland)

Iustin Pop, a system administrator at Google Switzerland, is publishing an ICFP experience report about his use of Haskell in a Python project.

Number of Haskell programmers at Credit Suisse falls to zero

Apparently, the number of Haskell programmers at Credit Suisse has fallen from almost 20 contributors a few years ago to zero full-time Haskell developers today.

According to ITJobsWatch, the number of Haskell jobs in the UK has fallen to its lowest level since 2008 and Haskell's share of the market by programming languages is now only 0.05%. Haskell's market share was most likely lost to F#.

Almost two million lines of Haskell code at Galois

The world's largest employer of Haskell programmers, Galois, apparently have been involved with almost two million lines of Haskell code.