[BLOG] From conduit to streamly

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To an outsider, it seems a bit more like NIH than performance. Relying on GHC internals also seems like a regression and a liability more than an improvement.

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To an outsider, it seems a bit more like NIH than performance

How so?

  1. yaml wasn’t written by me
  2. libyaml (the C library) wasn’t written by me
  3. streamly wasn’t written by me

99% of the code was written by others :slight_smile:

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Looks like there is already a Pure Haskell YAML Parser.

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Yes, it’s mentioned in the very intro section of the blog and it’s 10 times slower than yaml, which caused a noticeable slowdown in ghcup and issues in pandoc.