Glasgow Haskell Compiler 9.2.5 Is Available For Downloads

What’s Haskell?

Haskell is 16th most wanted programming language according to Stack Overflow developer survey.

A language concept named after famous mathematician Haskell Curry appeared 32 years ago. The most famous implementation is called GHC (The Glasgow Haskell Compiler).

Interesting fact: Schönfinkelisation is a technique known currently as currying after Haskell Curry who also worked on it. Thanks God.

Haskell is declarative and purely functional and became an inspiration for functional programming in other languages. For example for PureScript.

What’s New In Glasgow Haskell Compiler 9.2.5?

On 7/11/2022 GHC 9.2.5 was released. The minor release includes some bugfixes. These are the major ones:

• Code generation issues in the AArch64 native code generator backend resulting in incorrect runtime results in some circumstances
• Fixes for a number of issues with the simplifier leading to core lint errors and suboptimal performance
• A long-standing interface-file determinism issue where full paths would leak into the interface file
• A runtime system bug where creating empty mutable…