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Dear @Noughtmare@programming.dev, I want to thank you for your weekly post, I'm always happy to find a haskell newsletter in my inbox.
I hope you're not inconvenienced by me posting the newsletter link this week. I was looking for it and figured others might be doing the same, hence why I posted it.

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I stumbled over Bart de Goede’s article on building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python, and was reminded of my quest to show how useful Haskell is for solving real-world problems. Python is an eminently practical language, so nobody is surprised this can be done in Python. But Haskell? The Python code spends a lot of time updating mutable dictionaries. Surely we cannot easily port this code over to Haskell.

Let’s find out.

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