Hackathon Results

• MuniHac 2016
• ZuriHac 2016

MuniHac2016

This hackathon has been a great place for the Foundationnist to work together for the better future. Together, we have closed 7 issues and discussed 3 proposals, we have opened 13 pull requests and merged 11.

What have been done

• Native slicing for boxed array (PR #95);
• Add/Exposed bi-functors (PR #96);
• Add copy (PR #97);
• Add integration with coveralls (PR #99);
• Split length and null from Sequential (PR #106);
• Re-Factor and write tests (PR #107);
• Re-Factor and write benchmarks (PR #112);
• Optimise basic strings functions (PR #112);
• Parser (PR #90);
• Buildable (PR #91);
• Buildable optimisations;

Still in progress

• AsciiString for fast bytearray parsing and manipulation (PR #110)
• Array of Array (or Matrices) (PR #109)

What has been discussed

We also had interesting discussions about:

• Storable (FIP #111);
• Storable Arrays (FIP #84);
• FilePath;
• Array of Array as a data structure (PR #109)

ZuriHac2016

What have been done

• fixes in UTF8 base string (PR #52);
• strict functions (PR #49 - commit fixed in PR #55);
• support GHC's modified UTF8 (PR #53);
• FilePath ideas (PR #41);
• FilePath extensions (PR #55);
• Zippable (PR #48);