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Running a Startup on Haskell

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Re: Running a Startup on Haskell

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Post by antipax »

Haskell web frameworks are maturing rapidly and the language is a joy to work in, once you learn how to approach problems in it. Haskell has probably not reached the peak of it's popularity yet (and frankly it's overdue for some mainstream love).

Re: Running a Startup on Haskell

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Post by rednaught »

dustingetz wrote: post #3

anyone watch this yet? worth the 50 minutes? is there a transcript?

If you're interested in Haskell then yes it is a good presentation. In my opinion, Bryan is one of the more thoughtful speakers around.

Slides are here: http://bos.github.com/strange-loop-2011/talk/talk.html#%281%...

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He had a similar/same talk about a month prior and here is the video on Vimeo if you're not a fan of InfoQ's format:

http://vimeo.com/27192476 (Bryan O'Sullivan - Building Solid Distributed Applications with Haskell and Riak)

Re: Running a Startup on Haskell

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Post by viscanti »

antipax wrote: post #2

Haskell web frameworks are maturing rapidly and the language is a joy to work in, once you learn how to approach problems in it. Haskell has probably not reached the peak of it's popularity yet (and frankly it's overdue for some mainstream love).

I think Haskell (and functional languages in general) will become increasingly popular as it is (they are) a powerful way to deal with concurrency and can easily take advantage of multiple processors. Languages are tools in a developers toolbox, and Haskell turns out to be a powerful one for several growing problems.

Re: Running a Startup on Haskell

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Post by looser »

I only read the slides, but at one point the author mentions that they've built an hybrid app using (Haskell + C#).

Next, the author mentions about several limitations that C# has and that Haskell has a much better approach.

So, why use C#? Why not only use Haskell?

Re: Running a Startup on Haskell

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Post by taudelta »

looser wrote: post #6

I only read the slides, but at one point the author mentions that they've built an hybrid app using (Haskell + C#). Next, the author mentions about several limitations that C# has and that Haskell has a much better approach. So, why use C#? Why not only use Haskell?

He mentions that later on during the Q&A session

Re: Running a Startup on Haskell

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Post by looser »

taudelta wrote: post #7
looser wrote: post #6

I only read the slides, but at one point the author mentions that they've built an hybrid app using (Haskell + C#). Next, the author mentions about several limitations that C# has and that Haskell has a much better approach. So, why use C#? Why not only use Haskell?

He mentions that later on during the Q&A session

Ok, thanks.

Re: Running a Startup on Haskell

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Post by tome »

taudelta wrote: post #7
looser wrote: post #6

I only read the slides, but at one point the author mentions that they've built an hybrid app using (Haskell + C#). Next, the author mentions about several limitations that C# has and that Haskell has a much better approach. So, why use C#? Why not only use Haskell?

He mentions that later on during the Q&A session

Could you please repeat it here so we don't have to search? Thanks.
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