IRC Channels

The IRC channel can be an excellent place to learn more about Haskell, and to just keep in the loop on new things in the Haskell world. Many new developments in the Haskell world first appear on the IRC channel. Haskell channels are hosted on libera.chat.

Point your IRC client to irc.libera.chat:6697 (TLS) and then join the #haskell channel (or connect via your web browser). Check the guides for more connection information.

Plain text logs for #haskell from before the move to libera.chat (2021) are available at tunes.

Haskell development and community

Channel Purpose
#haskell-beginners A quieter channel for beginner Haskell questions
#haskell-language-server Haskell lsp based ide
#haskell-web Friendly, practical discussion of haskell web app/framework/server development
#haskell-docs The chatroom for coordinating contributions to the documentation
#haskell-infrastructure Contact Haskell infrastructure admins
#haskell-game The hub for Haskell-based game development
#haskell-in-depth slower paced discussion of use, theory, implementation etc with no monad tutorials!
#haskell-iphone Haskell-based iPhone development
#haskell-apple Projects that target iOS or OS X using Haskell.
#haskell-lisp Haskell Lisp - projects that are creating Lisps written in Haskell, or Haskell implementations written in Lisps.
#haskell-llvm For projects using Haskell and LLVM
#haskell-overflow Overflow conversations
#numerical-haskell For the larger numerical Haskell community
#haskell-blah Haskell people talking about anything except Haskell itself

Regional and language-specific channels

Channel Purpose
#haskell-au Australian Haskell hackers
#haskell-br Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) speakers
#haskell-cz Czech speakers (UTF-8)
#haskell-de German speakers
#haskell-dut Dutch speakers
#haskell-es Spanish speakers
#haskell-fi Finnish speakers
#haskell-fr French speakers
#haskell-hr Croatian speakers
#haskell-it Italian speakers
#haskell-jp Japanese speakers
#haskell-no Norwegian speakers
#haskell-pt Portuguese speakers
#haskell-pl Polish speakers
#haskell-ru Russian speakers. Seems that most of them migrated to Jabber conference (haskell@conference.jabber.ru).
#haskell_ru Russian speakers again, in UTF-8. For those, who prefer good ol’ IRC channel with a lambdabot.
#haskell-se Swedish speakers
#haskell-tw Chinese speakers (mainly in Taiwan)
#haskell-vn Vietnamese speakers

Platform-specific

Channel Purpose
#arch-haskell Arch Linux/ specific Haskell conversations
#fedora-haskell Fedora Haskell SIG
#gentoo-haskell Gentoo/Linux specific Haskell conversations

Projects using haskell

Channel Purpose
#darcs Darcs revision control system
#diagrams Diagrams EDSL
#disciplined The Disciplined Disciple Compiler (DDC)
#hackage Haskell’s software distribution infrastructure
#haskell-beam Beam interface to relational databases
#haskell-lens Lens discussions
#happs Happstack web framework
#tasty Tasty test framework
#hledger hledger accounting tools and library
#leksah Leksah IDE for Haskell development
#perl6 Perl 6 development (plenty of Haskell chat there too)
#snapframework Snap web framework
#xmonad Xmonad tiling window manager
#yesod Yesod web framework
#haskell-distributed Distributed Haskell discussion
#chicagohaskell Chicago Haskell programmers group