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Redoing Make - Haskell from Scratch #1

jekor · tutorial · Watch on YouTube

Functional programmingTesting, debugging & developer tools

What it is

The first episode of a screencast series building djb's redo build system from scratch in Haskell. It explains the purpose of redo, writes initial code and sets up a GitHub repository.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended to Haskell learners as a rare example of building a real program step by step beyond toy examples.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “the Jekor Redo [1] videos are fantastic, and demonstrate the slow building up of more complicated things than "reverse this string.”

    Builds up complex Haskell programs slowly beyond toy examples.

    traviscj, 2014-02 · Strong recommendation · in “A Lazy Evaluation – Why I Find Learning Haskell Hard”

  2. “There's some great screncasts though which have been helpful.”

    Screencast implementing redo in Haskell, helpful for making real things.

    minikomi, 2014-08 · Recommendation · in “Getting It Done with Haskell”

  3. “I recommended it for anyone wanting to learn Haskell.”

    Live coding of djb's redo in Haskell, good for learning Haskell.

    mavelikara, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “Redo: A recursive, general-purpose build system”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: haskell, redo, build systems, live coding, screencast

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