Well-Typed and the entire hs-bindgen team—there are quite a few of us, see below—are delighted to announce hs-bindgen 1.0, the first official release. In case you missed the announcement of the alpha release, hs-bindgen is a tool to automatically generate Haskell bindings from C headers.

In this blog post we will start with a very brief intro to hs-bindgen, but we will not repeat everything that we discussed in the first two blog posts that announced the first and second alpha releases. Instead, we will highlight a few of the major changes; for a full list (which is quite long!), please see the changelog.

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