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Low-dimensional linear algebra primitives for Haskell.

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Open beginner issues
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Indexed issues
28
Dominant language
Haskell
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Last GitHub push
Apr 21, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 15, 2026
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  • functions for Scott-style deconstruction of V2,V3, etc.? [question]
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ekmett/linear#186 ·

  • `OverloadedRecordDot` support
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    feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ekmett/linear#181 · 2 comments ·

  • Upstream some Diagrams utilities
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    • Is something wrong?
    bikeshedding feature request

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ekmett/linear#180 · 4 comments ·

  • Use microlens instead of lens
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ekmett/linear#179 · 1 comment ·

  • use atan2 in V2.unangle
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ekmett/linear#177 · 1 reaction ·

  • luSolve fails for matrices with zeros on the main diagonal
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    ekmett/linear#176 ·

  • Support for Octonions?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ekmett/linear#175 ·

  • Derive instance Real a => Real (V1 a)
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ekmett/linear#170 · 5 comments ·

  • Epsilon without Num
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ekmett/linear#168 · 7 comments ·

  • Field[n] instance for Affine.Point?
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ekmett/linear#165 · 1 comment ·

  • length-indexed lists
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    ekmett/linear#155 ·

  • Alternative to LGPL-dependency integer-gmp
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ekmett/linear#154 ·

  • A Faster Linear.V.V
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    • Is something wrong?
    api-change feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ekmett/linear#152 · 1 comment ·

  • better unit tests
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    • Is something wrong?
    packaging

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ekmett/linear#150 · 2 comments ·

  • Drop the Herbie optimizations?
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    • Is something wrong?
    api-change packaging

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ekmett/linear#143 · 2 comments ·

  • add function (V2 to its angle(inverse of `angle`))
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    feature request

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ekmett/linear#136 · 5 comments ·

  • N-dimensional bounding-boxes
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    feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    ekmett/linear#135 · 11 comments ·

  • Consider implementing safe indexing by `Fin n` for `V n`
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    api-change feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ekmett/linear#134 · 6 comments ·

  • Fix homogeneous coordinates (and the affine transformations on them)
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    • Is something wrong?
    api-change bikeshedding lots of work question

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ekmett/linear#115 · 5 comments ·

  • Support for 2D homogeneous coordinates
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    api-change feature request

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ekmett/linear#114 ·

  • Singular Value Decomposition
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    feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ekmett/linear#112 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • A way to read [a] to t a
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    feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ekmett/linear#109 · 14 comments ·

  • Matrices stored in column-major format?
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    • Is something wrong?
    api-change lots of work performance

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    ekmett/linear#94 · 6 comments ·

  • Use generalized Boolean for Epsilon
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    api-change feature request performance question

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ekmett/linear#88 · 3 comments ·

  • Add an Invertible typeclass?
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    feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    ekmett/linear#86 · 3 comments ·

  • Is there interest in pattern synonyms for vector component swizzling?
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    • Is something wrong?
    feature request question

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ekmett/linear#85 · 3 comments ·

  • Move Linear.Quaternion.Simple and Linear.Complex.Simple from `linear-accelerate`
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    • Is something wrong?
    api-change packaging

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ekmett/linear#34 ·

  • Add monomorphic classes for * alongside existing ones for * → *
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    • Is something wrong?
    api-change feature request lots of work

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ekmett/linear#17 · 16 comments ·

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