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The number of Haskell packages is growing rapidly. The section 'Haskell library collections' gives an ordering of all these packages by relative importance. In the section 'Haskell applications and libraries' an ordering by category is given. Finally some guidelines for developers of new packages are presented.
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== Haskell library collections ==
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The first place to look for data types or functions that do what you
  
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want is the Standard Prelude, then the
 
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[[Language and library specification]] (both parts of
  
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the Haskell standards documentation), then in whatever extra libraries
  
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are provided by the Haskell implementation you are using, then on the
  
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page you are looking at. If it is not here, then it may be in the
  
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[http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/announce.html archives] of the
  
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[[Haskell Weekly News]].
  
   
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=== Haskell Prelude ===
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Search the standard libraries collection (by name or type signature)
  
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The most important Haskell library is called the [http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Prelude.html Prelude]. It is implicitly imported by default, and includes the most commonly used functions. Make sure you know what they do and how to use them effectively.
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using [http://haskell.org/hoogle Hoogle].
  
   
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=== The Haskell 2010 libraries ===
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There is a [http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries mailing list] for discussing issues related to libraries.
  
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The Haskell 2010 [[Language and library specification]] defines a set of [http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellpa2.html libraries] with basic functionality which all Haskell implementations should support, including the Prelude. Changes to these libraries are handled by the [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/ Haskell'] process.
   
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Haskell modules that almost everybody uses are in this group, for example:
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A large collection of [http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/index.html standard hierarchical libraries] are currently distributed with GHC (from version 5.04), Hugs (from Nov 2003), and nhc98 (from 1.16).
  
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[http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch13.html Control.Monad], [http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch20.html Data.List]
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and [http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch41.html System.IO]. Within GHC, these are mostly grouped into the [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base base] package, but for example [http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch14.html Data.Array] is the [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/array array] package.
   
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=== The GHC standard libraries ===
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[[Cabal]], The Common Architecture for Building Applications and Libraries, is an framework for packaging, building, and installing any tool developed in the Haskell language.
  
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GHC comes with an expanded version of the Haskell 2010 libraries. Together these are called the [http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/index.html GHC standard libraries]. Changes to these libraries are handled by the package maintainer if one exists, or the [[Library submissions]] process if not. [http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/ Hoogle] - the Haskell API Search Engine - indexes the [http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/index.html GHC standard libraries].
   
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Examples of libraries, or packages, that belong to this group are:
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This page was intended as a comprehensive list of all Haskell libraries and tools. Because of Haskell's success, the list grew too large to be on one page, and it has now been split up. Some of the libraries and tools linked to from the library and tools pages are proof-of-concepts rather than production code. Some have no longer been maintained for a long time.
  
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[http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring bytestring],
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[http://hackage.haskell.org/package/containers containers] and [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Win32 Win32].
   
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=== Haskell Platform libraries ===
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On freshmeat.net there is [http://freshmeat.net/browse/834/?topic_id=834 an alternative list of software written in Haskell]. That list is currently short (for you to change that). Even more Haskell projects are documented in the [http://haskell.org/communities/ community reports] and in the archives of the [[Haskell Weekly News]]. Google knows about some rare things not documented anywhere else.
  
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On top of the GHC standard libraries, the [http://www.haskell.org/platform/ Haskell Platform] comes preinstalled with some additional packages that together form the [http://www.haskell.org/platform/contents.html#packages-and-documentation Haskell Platform libraries]. These libraries have been thoroughly tested before being included. The addition of these libraries with the [http://www.haskell.org/platform/ Haskell Platform] is what makes it 'batteries included'.
   
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Examples of included packages are: [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/mtl Monad transformer library], [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parallel parallel] and [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck QuickCheck].
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== Categories of Libraries and Tools ==
  
   
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=== The Hackage database ===
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* [[/Program development/]]
  
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[http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html Hackage] is the final layer of the Haskell library collections. [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html Hackage] aims to provide a comprehensive collection of released Haskell packages, similar to Perl's CPAN or Python's PyPI.
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* [[/Data structures/]]
  
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* [[/Extended Haskell/]]
  
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Start on [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html Hackage] if you are looking for some functionality that did not come preinstalled with the [http://www.haskell.org/platform/ Haskell Platform].
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* [[/Interfacing other languages|Tools for interfacing with other languages]]
  
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* [[/Operating system/|Operating systems and systems programming]]
  
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See also the [[Hackage|Hackage wiki page]] and [[Cabal/How to install a Cabal package | how to install a Cabal package]].
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* [[/Network/]]
  
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== Haskell applications and libraries ==
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Applications, libraries and tools for Haskell or written in Haskell have been classified below, but you should check [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html Hackage] for the latest list.
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* [[/Music and sound/|Audio, music and sound]]
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* [[/Bioinformatics/]]
 
* [[/Concurrency and parallelism/]]
  
* [[/Concurrency and parallelism/]]
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* [[/Compilers and interpreters/]]
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* [[/Compiler tools|Compiler construction, lexing, parsing, pretty printing]]
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* [[/Cryptography|Cryptography and hashing]]
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* [[/Data structures | Data Structures and IO Libraries]]
 
* [[/Database interfaces/]]
  
* [[/Database interfaces/]]
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* [[/Editors|Editors written in Haskell]] and [[Editors|editors for Haskell]].
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* [[/GUI libraries|Graphical User Interface Libraries]]
  
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* [[/Extended Haskell/]]
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* [[/Games/]]
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* [[/Generic programming/]]
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* [[/GUI libraries|Graphical User Interface (GUI) Libraries]]
 
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* [[/Graphics/]]
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* [[/Web programming|Web, HTML, XML]]
  
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* [[/Compiler tools|Parsing, lexing and regular expressions]]
  
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* [[/Pretty printing|Pretty-printer libraries]]
  
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* [[/Editors/]]
  
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* [[/Mathematics|Numerical algorithms and mathematics]]
  
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* [[/Theorem provers/]]
  
 
* [[/Hardware verification/]]
  
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* [[/Robots/]]
  
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* [[/Music and sound/]]
  
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* [[/Genetic programming/]]
  
 
* [[/Linguistics|Linguistics and natural language processing]]
  
* [[/Linguistics|Linguistics and natural language processing]]
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* [[/Mathematics/|Mathematics and physics]]
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* [[/Games/]]
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* [[/Network/]]
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* [[/Operating system/|Operating systems and systems programming]] (also emulators)
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* [[/Program development/]]
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* [[/Robotics/]]
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* [[/Theorem provers/]]
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* [[/Interfacing other languages|Tools for interfacing with other languages]]
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* [[Web|Web, HTML, XML]]
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Other places to look include:
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* The [[Library]] hierarchy page on this wiki.
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* The Haskell [[Haskell Communities and Activities Report|community reports]].
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* The [http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries mailing list] for discussion of issues related to libraries.
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You can also [http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/top/?t=month propose and vote on new libraries] that you'd like on [http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell reddit], and look at our past [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ Summer of Code proposals].
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== Guidelines for developers ==
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[[Image:Cabal-With-Text-small.png|frame|Built with Cabal]]
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Developer guides:
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* [[How to write a Haskell program|How to write a new Haskell library]]
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* [[Library submissions|How to propose changes to the standard libraries]]
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20071011215053/http://pupeno.com/2006/12/12/the-lambda-revolution-v/ Creating a .deb from a Haskell Cabal package] (in the Web Archive)
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* Guide to making standard [[Library submissions|library submissions]]
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* If you notice the library documentation is lacking, or could be improved, [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Improving_library_documentation please report it here]
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* [http://www.google.com/codesearch Google Code Search] can help identify common idioms, improving your API.
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* [[Future projects]], more projects people would like.
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* [[Cabal]], The Common Architecture for Building Applications and Libraries, is a framework for packaging, building, and installing any tool developed in the Haskell language.
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* [[Hack-Nix]], a set of tools based on the [http://nixos.org Nix] package manager to manage multiple setups to build a project
   
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Proposals for the module name space layout that can be used to guide the construction of new libraries.
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== Collections of libraries ==
  
   
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* [[Hierarchical module names|Almost current guide]]
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* [http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~arock/haskell/index.html Andrew Rock's library of useful modules]
  
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* [http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/libraries/layout.html Proposal 1]
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* [http://www.informatik.uni-bonn.de/~ralf/software.html Libraries by Ralf Hinze] for data structures, sorting, searching, parsing, pretty printing, numerical algorithms, monads, etc.
  
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* [http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/ian.lynagh/ Ian Lynagh's Haskell libraries]
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* [http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/libraries/layoutSM.html Proposal 2]
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* [http://www.reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk/projects/index.html Reid Consulting's Libraries and Programs] CMI, TSL, Knit, Greencard, HGL, HSX11, HSWin32
  
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* [http://www.pms.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/mitarbeiter/panne/haskell_libs/ Sven's Haskell Libaries] {{dead link}} for interfacing to DaVinci, HTML/Cgi, OpenGL; a module for option handling, a Haskell parser, a binary library.
  
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.numeric-quest.com/haskell/index.html Collection of Haskell modules] ''(since 10/06/2003: via Internet Archive)'' by Jan Skibinski, Numeric Quest Inc.
  
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* [http://www.informatik.uni-bonn.de/~ralf/ Ralf Hinze] maintains a huge [http://www.informatik.uni-bonn.de/~ralf/software.html Haskell software page]
  
   
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== Libraries for other languages ==
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=== Libraries for other languages ===
   
 
If you are thinking about designing a new library for Haskell, you ought to look what has been done in other languages. Here are standard library definitions for
 
If you are thinking about designing a new library for Haskell, you ought to look what has been done in other languages. Here are standard library definitions for
   
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* [http://www.cs.ru.nl/~clean/Download/Download_Libraries/body_download_libraries.html Clean]
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* [http://wiki.clean.cs.ru.nl/Libraries Clean]
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* [http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/what/smlnj/doc/basis/index.html Standard ML]
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* [http://www.standardml.org/Basis/ Standard ML]
 
* [http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual034.html Objective Caml]
  
* [http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual034.html Objective Caml]
 
* [http://srfi.schemers.org/ Scheme]
  
* [http://srfi.schemers.org/ Scheme]

Revision as of 13:04, 27 June 2014


The number of Haskell packages is growing rapidly. The section 'Haskell library collections' gives an ordering of all these packages by relative importance. In the section 'Haskell applications and libraries' an ordering by category is given. Finally some guidelines for developers of new packages are presented.

Haskell library collections

Haskell Prelude

The most important Haskell library is called the Prelude. It is implicitly imported by default, and includes the most commonly used functions. Make sure you know what they do and how to use them effectively.

The Haskell 2010 libraries

The Haskell 2010 Language and library specification defines a set of libraries with basic functionality which all Haskell implementations should support, including the Prelude. Changes to these libraries are handled by the Haskell' process.

Haskell modules that almost everybody uses are in this group, for example: Control.Monad, Data.List and System.IO. Within GHC, these are mostly grouped into the base package, but for example Data.Array is the array package.

The GHC standard libraries

GHC comes with an expanded version of the Haskell 2010 libraries. Together these are called the GHC standard libraries. Changes to these libraries are handled by the package maintainer if one exists, or the Library submissions process if not. Hoogle - the Haskell API Search Engine - indexes the GHC standard libraries.

Examples of libraries, or packages, that belong to this group are: bytestring, containers and Win32.

Haskell Platform libraries

On top of the GHC standard libraries, the Haskell Platform comes preinstalled with some additional packages that together form the Haskell Platform libraries. These libraries have been thoroughly tested before being included. The addition of these libraries with the Haskell Platform is what makes it 'batteries included'.

Examples of included packages are: Monad transformer library, parallel and QuickCheck.

The Hackage database

Hackage is the final layer of the Haskell library collections. Hackage aims to provide a comprehensive collection of released Haskell packages, similar to Perl's CPAN or Python's PyPI.

Start on Hackage if you are looking for some functionality that did not come preinstalled with the Haskell Platform.

See also the Hackage wiki page and how to install a Cabal package.

Haskell applications and libraries

Applications, libraries and tools for Haskell or written in Haskell have been classified below, but you should check Hackage for the latest list.

Other places to look include:

You can also propose and vote on new libraries that you'd like on reddit, and look at our past Summer of Code proposals.

Guidelines for developers

Built with Cabal

Developer guides:

Proposals for the module name space layout that can be used to guide the construction of new libraries.

Libraries for other languages

If you are thinking about designing a new library for Haskell, you ought to look what has been done in other languages. Here are standard library definitions for

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