Haskell Report updates

#1

Just getting back into Haskell after a break, I was reading the Haskell 2010 report. The preface contains this remark:

After several years exploring the design space, it was decided that a single monolithic revision of the language was too large a task, and the best way to make progress was to evolve the language in small incremental steps, each revision integrating only a small number of well-understood extensions and changes. Haskell 2010 is the first revision to be created in this way, and new revisions are expected once per year.

Have there been any more recent versions of the report? Have there been any annual revisions published? Is the 2010 report the final word, formally speaking, currently? Will the large number of GHC extensions ever get into the Report?

#2

Haskell 2020 is Dead, but All Hope is Not Lost

GHC 20XX process

GHC 2021

GHC User’s Guide: Controlling Language Extensions

The community is largely divided on whether or not there is use in creating a new standard since GHC is (pretty much) the only compiler in contention right now (I’m not arguing for this position). Additionally, there are, of course, orders of magnitude more people who want the process to be done than there are people who want to get involved and carry out the process.

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#3

…if you do want to get involved.

Probably not - some of them are mutually conflicting.

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