GHC Status Report
summary
Yearly release cadence drops from eight to four per year; current highlights: 9.14 LTS designated, 9.12.3 reintroduces a correctness regression via bad backport, and 10.0 is imminent with work on reinstallable base to let GHC 10 compile older code. New features include specialization for terms, overloaded record update, required type args in constructors, a native-code backend and WebAssembly GHCi/Template Haskell support, bytecode-object caching, huge-page GC support, and distinct type vs constraint. Infrastructure pain: crawler-driven GitLab outages and an ongoing debate about moving hosting. Contributions wanted for base, Haddock, Backpack, and infra.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00GHC status report
- 1:10GHC 9.14 highlights
- 6:23GHC 10.0 stability goals
- 13:48GHC proposals updates
- 18:22Infrastructure challenges
- 25:06Release coordination improvements
- 30:19Q&A documentation
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