Is this project dead? :(

[michalczaplinski]

I have just started reading it, but noticed that there have been no new commits since October. I would absolutely love to see this book completed!

[lohmander]

Agreed! If time and money is sparse, I'd not be opposed to starting some sort of crowd funding. Really would love to have this book completed!

[tbenst]

+1 for crowd funding, would chip in if someone organizes. Quite a unique book as far as I can tell, no alternatives!

[AgustinCB]

+1 I'd also love to donate money for the project if it keeps it moving.

[caasi]

+1 I would back this project.

[doppioslash]

+1, I would back as well. I can help with setting up the crowdfunding as well.

[carlosdagos]

+1 for donations

[zpyzl]

+1 for donations, really impressive book!

[aalhour]

+1 for donations.

[Tehnix]

Just adding my voice to the choir! This is such a gem, and it is quite sad it is in this unfinished state. As far as I understood, Stephen got a job and for obvious reasons has much less time to work on this.

That said, I wonder if there is something the Haskell community could help to further the progress on this - even just a little at a time would be beneficial I think.

I don't know if Diehl himself has any thoughts on this, would be interesting to hear it :)

[lambdadog]

Hey, no commits for two years now, very interested to hear on any updates to this/possibilities for furthering it, whether by Diehl himself or by the community, would be willing to put money toward it or even contribute what little I could to it

[srid]

Meanwhile, as a momentary alternative to finishing the book, what if we put together a series of papers, tutorials, books acting as a "progression" towards understanding the theoretical basis of Haskell?

[adamwespiser]

@srid There are two good lists of foundational papers for implementing a Haskell compiler:

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/essential_compilers.html

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/reading-list