Open source projects for beginners

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/haskell

Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video.
Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
getstream.io
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InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
www.influxdata.com
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  1. ormolu

    A formatter for Haskell source code

  2. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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  3. ghcid

    Very low feature GHCi based IDE

  4. pandoc

    Universal markup converter

  5. xmonad

    The core of xmonad, a small but functional ICCCM-compliant tiling window manager

  6. xmonad-contrib

    Contributed modules for xmonad

  7. swarm

    Resource gathering + programming game (by swarm-game)

    Always happy to welcome contributors to https://github.com/byorgey/swarm (see CONTRIBUTING.md and issues tagged "low-hanging fruit" ). The needed level of expertise varies a lot from module to module, but there's a good deal that should be accessible to someone with a year of Haskell experience.

  8. hledger

    Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.

    +1 to that. If you're into accounting: https://hledger.org, https://hledger.org/WORKFLOWS.html

  9. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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