What exactly is the use-case for this? Can't quite get it from the site.
I'm a bit baffled which part of "Haste lets you write your client-server web application as a single, type-safe program" is unclear to you.
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Re: Haste language
#12> In essence, Haste lets you write your client-server web application as a single, type-safe program, rather than two separate programs that just happen to talk to each other over some web API as is traditional.
I've been thinking about this same idea recently and find it very attractive. As programmers we don't explicitly control how our RAM communicates with the CPU; we let the underlying abstractions handle it. Why don't we have similar abstractions for when a client-side program (CPU) needs to access something on the server (RAM)?
Does anyone know of other tools trying to accomplish this? I'm not a Haskeller but am tempted to dive in just for this feature.
Re: Haste language
#13> In essence, Haste lets you write your client-server web application as a single, type-safe program, rather than two separate programs that just happen to talk to each other over some web API as is traditional. I've been thinking about this same idea recently and find it very attractive. As programmers we don't explicitly control how our RAM communicates with the CPU; we let the underlying abstractions handle it. Wh…
What is meteor.js?
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#14Meta-comment: this is an excellently written landing page. All the comments about the explanation prose you usually see on HN when a language or library is introduced could be rewritten as "Make it more like Haste's landing page".
Agree. If it had a list of "Awesome stuff made with haste" at the bottom, I'd be more inclined to proclaim it perfect. Perhaps it's just a matter of time!
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#15> In essence, Haste lets you write your client-server web application as a single, type-safe program, rather than two separate programs that just happen to talk to each other over some web API as is traditional. I've been thinking about this same idea recently and find it very attractive. As programmers we don't explicitly control how our RAM communicates with the CPU; we let the underlying abstractions handle it. Wh…
Isn't this exactly the idea of the big RPC suites from 10 years ago?
It is possible, somewhat, but you get very ugly web api's, because they are 'implementation before contract' instead of designing an api first, and then letting both sides adhere to it.
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#16> In essence, Haste lets you write your client-server web application as a single, type-safe program, rather than two separate programs that just happen to talk to each other over some web API as is traditional. I've been thinking about this same idea recently and find it very attractive. As programmers we don't explicitly control how our RAM communicates with the CPU; we let the underlying abstractions handle it. Wh…
What is meteor.js?
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#17> In essence, Haste lets you write your client-server web application as a single, type-safe program, rather than two separate programs that just happen to talk to each other over some web API as is traditional. I've been thinking about this same idea recently and find it very attractive. As programmers we don't explicitly control how our RAM communicates with the CPU; we let the underlying abstractions handle it. Wh…
Maybe this: http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/links/
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#18> In essence, Haste lets you write your client-server web application as a single, type-safe program, rather than two separate programs that just happen to talk to each other over some web API as is traditional. I've been thinking about this same idea recently and find it very attractive. As programmers we don't explicitly control how our RAM communicates with the CPU; we let the underlying abstractions handle it. Wh…
Ur/Web's [0] pretty obscure but also does this. As does Opa [1].
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#19> In essence, Haste lets you write your client-server web application as a single, type-safe program, rather than two separate programs that just happen to talk to each other over some web API as is traditional. I've been thinking about this same idea recently and find it very attractive. As programmers we don't explicitly control how our RAM communicates with the CPU; we let the underlying abstractions handle it. Wh…
What is meteor.js?
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#20I don't exactly understand why Haste was made into a separate dialect when it "just" has a different stdlib?
> with a different set of standard libraries
Is there a technical reason why it would be ill advised to just make Haste itself into a separate library that can be included into the regular Haskell ecosystem? Doesn't this type of fragmentation cause huge delays in the progress of a language, ultimately?
Hopefully it's obvious that I'm entirely not knowledgeable about these things and that I'd love for someone to explain this to me.