The Glasgow Haskell Compiler now supports SSE/AVX SIMD instructions due to Geoff Mainland’s heroic efforts. This paves the way for data-intensive apps in Haskell that are faster than C code without much effort.
@jonsterling@kowey it's a bit tricky getting keyboard commands to work since Xmonad really wants to spawn X11 on a huge chunk of the default bindings. Going to have to rewrite them. But got a giant monitor at work and working on a Mac so hopefully soon :)