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brendanhay
amazonka
Haskell2014–2023
brendanhay / amazonka

amazonka

A comprehensive Amazon Web Services SDK for Haskell.

4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
617GitHub stars
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What it is

A comprehensive Amazon Web Services SDK for Haskell.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-12-15 03:02:01 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:13:54 UTC.

012014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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They do exist. I use http://hackage.haskell.org/package/optparse-applicative for small cli apps http://hackage.haskell.org/package/envparse For any Docker microservice http://hackage.haskell.org/package/aeson-1.4.5.0/docs/Data-A... For all JSON work. Sometimes I’ll use it with lenses which is massively powerful but a rabbit hole I’ll use http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stm when dealing with parallel execution https://github.com/brendanhay/amazonka For anything dealing with AWS https://github.com/haskell-works?tab=repositories Projects for Kafka and avro http://hackage.haskell.org/package/warp For trivial micro services or Scotty if more than a few endpoints http://hackage.haskell.org/package/persistent For dealing with Postgres http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec For dealing with any text parsing. The tools are available, they ca
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n make things like cli apps and micro services trivial. However if you have never used a ML language before you will have a steep learning curve as very different to C style/based languages. I was once of the opinion Haskell is academic, what can you use it for in the real world. Then I studied with it, played with it admittedly on and off over 1-2 years, hit hurdles where I had to think as so different to what I’ve learnt before. Eventually it clicked, it’s very hard and frustrating now in my day job using typical enterprise or popular languages. It’s not about convincing, it’s about having a open mind and wanting to learn something different
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