Please bring your laptop with the following software pre-installed to the workshop.
If you are on macOS Mojave (10.14) or High Sierra (10.13), please download Haskell for Mac and activate the 14 day trial. Haskell for Mac is an IDE that makes it easy to get started with Haskell. You will receive a full license key at the workshop.
For High Sierra, please use the old version of Haskell for Mac for now.
If you are on a version of macOS older than 10.13, please install the Haskell Platform (8.6.3) package. This provides you with a command line compiler.
Please install the Haskell Platform (8.6.3). (There is also a 32bit version.) Also, please take not of these additional instructions.
On Linux, please use the package manager of your Linux distribution as described on the Haskell Platform page. Please install the version including version 8.6.4 or 8.6.3 of GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler).
Here are some optional suggestions for improved Haskell support in a variety of editors. You will be able to follow the workshop without installing any of these.
- Haskell for Mac: Nothing to do: a Haskell editor is built-in.
- Emacs: haskell-mode
- Vim: haskell-vim
- Sublime: SublimeHaskell
- Atom: Atom-Haskell