Which is your favorite "hidden gem" package on Hackage? [closed]

Question

There are a lot of packages on Hackage, some well known (such as HUnit) and some less known (such as AspectAG). I'm wondering which package you think is a hidden gem that deserves more users. Maybe a useful data structure, helpers for monads, networking, test, ...?

Which is your favorite "hidden gem" package on Hackage?

Answer 1

Oleg Kiselyov's Iteratee. I still don't really understand how it works, but it's saved my life a couple of times when I've needed to do something like read 60,000 files quickly and didn't have time to figure out why the normal Haskell file access approaches were so slow.

Also Brian O'Sullivan's Attoparsec, which in my experience does perform much better than Parsec on things like large flat-file databases.

And now you can combine the two.

Conal Elliott's Vector-space packages up a lot of linear algebra functions very nicely, and also got me a little closer to feeling comfortable with type families.

Statistics (again by O'Sullivan) has been handy because I'd prefer to work in Haskell than in R.

HXT and Criterion aren't "hidden gems", but in my opinion they deserve to be more widely used.