Haskell: GHC 9.8.1 is now available

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GHC 9.8.1 is now available

bgamari - 2023-10-09

The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the final release of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org.

GHC 9.8 brings a number of new features and improvements, including:

• Preliminary support the TypeAbstractions language extension, allowing types to be bound in type declarations TypeAbstractions.

• Support for the ExtendedLiterals extension, providing syntax for non-word-sized numeric literals in the surface language extended-literals

• Improved rewrite r...

Get the full details here: GHC 9.8.1 is now available — The Glasgow Haskell Compiler