Haskell :heart: Lua (bobkonf2022)

Haskell and Lua share some similarities, like support for functional programming, but are otherwise very different. Nonetheless, the two complement each other in interesting ways. This is demonstrated by pandoc, the universal document converter, which is written in Haskell and uses Lua as extension language. Pandoc’s behavior can be modified through Lua filters, custom readers, and custom writers, leveraging the power of Haskell and flexibility of Lua. While combining the two languages is made easy by the hslua package, the internals of that package are not always straight-forward and a testament to the powers of Haskell’s Foreign Function Interface. We will take a look at the encountered impedance mismatch and how it was overcome, compare it to efforts in adjacent languages like OCaml, and see how hslua can be used to expose application internals to scripts effectively and conveniently. about this event: https://bobkonf.de/2022/krewinkel.html