monpad VS defect-process

Basically everything - it's a general purpose language after all! Creating Spotify playlists, polling my local tennis courts' website to see when spaces become available, home automation stuff like turning lights and plugs off under certain conditions. Today I wrote a 20-line-or-so program to track my friend's progress in a marathon. More substantially, over lockdown I built a tool for using phones as game controllers, and it's been my primary language at work for the past five years, across two very different jobs.

The one time I've needed this, I used Shake (this particular example is likely more complex than you need). I can fully recommend it.

I've been building a web app, for which it would be very useful to be able to vibrate the user's phone (with Navigator.vibrate) at various points.

Totally possible. Here’s a link to a game recently released on Steam that is written in Haskell and whose source is open: https://github.com/incoherentsoftware/defect-process

I recently hacked together an asteroids clone in Haskell with SDL2 and not much else. It’s not super pretty but it works.

I’ve talked to folks who’ve been using the newer effects libraries taking advantage of the new delimited continuation primops in GHC 9.6 for their game dev. Even with very high level libraries their reporting acceptable performance.

With enough dedication I’m certain anyone could make whatever game they wanted in an FP language.

And the full code (w/o assets) is available too https://github.com/incoherentsoftware/defect-process

Or as mentioned recently... a game written in Haskell, published on steam: https://incoherentsoftware.com/defect-process/docs/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1136730/Defect_Process/

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Hi I added the full source code for Defect Process to coincide with the full game release on Steam. See the brief overview docs for a high level tour of the code design.

A haskell game on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1136730/Defect_Process/

Over the Christmas break I took some time to study the source code of Defect Process (https://github.com/incoherentsoftware/defect-process) to better understand industry-strength software architecture in Haskell and Game Engines. I have written a longer article about my analysis: https://www.lambdabytes.io/articles/defectprocess/

Thanks, good to hear that learning haskell has been rewarding so far! For code questions later on, feel free to open a github discussion if this reddit thread is inactive at that point.