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An efficient compact, immutable byte string type (both strict and lazy) suitable for binary or 8-bit character data.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2015-09-11 · latest 2023-07-05

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  1. …of many a seasoned Haskell programmer lie strewn at its feet. > Witness the trail of destruction: https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/commit/71c4b438c675aa360c79d79acc9a491e7bbc26e7 https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/commit/210c656390a…
    comment by bradrn · 2023-07-05 · in RunWithScissors() (2009)
  2. …of many a seasoned Haskell programmer lie strewn at its feet. Witness the trail of destruction: https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/commit/71c4b438c675aa3... https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/commit/210c656390ae617...…
    comment by gizmo686 · 2018-07-19 · in Unsafe Haskell (2015)
  3. …libraries, which use things like accursedUnutterablePerformIO to go back down to the thunk level: https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/blob/master/Data/ByteS... ). But reads are (mostly) pure so it shouldn't break anything to provide a…
    comment by Mathnerd314 · 2016-10-31 · in Functional Programs Are Imperative Pumpkins
  4. …rise to some great function names like `reallyUnsafePtrEquality` and `accursedUnutterablePerformIO` https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/blob/dd3c07d115840d134...
    comment by MaxGabriel · 2015-10-26 · in Writing an OS in Rust