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Okapi – A micro web framework for Haskell

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Re: Okapi – A micro web framework for Haskell

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Post by kccqzy »

_8j50 wrote: post #2

Haskell for web? That's very impressive if you can get it to work at scale. This is the hardest language I have ever personally tried to learn.

Of course you can. As early as 2012, Michael Snoyman has written a book about it, Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod. Yesod is an old web framework by now, but it's not even the oldest. Happstack is even older than that.

Re: Okapi – A micro web framework for Haskell

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Post by epgui »

kobalsky wrote: post #3
_8j50 wrote: post #2

Haskell for web? That's very impressive if you can get it to work at scale. This is the hardest language I have ever personally tried to learn.

monads still keep me awake at night

Monads are only complicated if you have to unlearn stuff. You've probably written a ton of monads by accident, regardless of what language you use.

Re: Okapi – A micro web framework for Haskell

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Post by naasking »

epgui wrote: post #7
kobalsky wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

monads still keep me awake at night

Monads are only complicated if you have to unlearn stuff. You've probably written a ton of monads by accident, regardless of what language you use.

List comprehensions in multiple languages, LINQ in .NET, all monads.

Re: Okapi – A micro web framework for Haskell

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Post by dfee »

kccqzy wrote: post #6
_8j50 wrote: post #2

Haskell for web? That's very impressive if you can get it to work at scale. This is the hardest language I have ever personally tried to learn.

Of course you can. As early as 2012, Michael Snoyman has written a book about it, Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod . Yesod is an old web framework by now, but it's not even the oldest. Happstack is even older than that.

Do you write web applications in Haskell? It’s not clear where the community is, and that’s troublesome because for those not well oriented with Haskell, the adventure is solitary.

MS seems to be doing a bit of Rust these days, so I kind of wonder if the spiritual successor is another, albeit less hardcore, language.

For me, it’s been difficult because I don’t know where the false starts are, and don’t have the unlimited time I once had to wallow and grow without any community support. Other languages are just more approachable, but something eats at me that Haskell is worth it.

Re: Okapi – A micro web framework for Haskell

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Post by lgas »

dfee wrote: post #9
kccqzy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course you can. As early as 2012, Michael Snoyman has written a book about it, Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod . Yesod is an old web framework by now, but it's not even the oldest. Happstack is even older than that.

Do you write web applications in Haskell? It’s not clear where the community is, and that’s troublesome because for those not well oriented with Haskell, the adventure is solitary. MS seems to be doing a bit of Rust these days, so I kind of wonder if the spiritual successor is another, albeit less hardcore, language. For me, it’s been difficult because I don’t know where the false starts are, and don’t have the unlim…

Not the person that you're responding to, but I write web applications in Haskell. Previously with Servant and these days mostly with scotty. Happy to try to answer any questions you have here, but there are great communities of helpful people on Reddit (r/haskell and r/haskellquestions) and the FP Slack as well. There's no need to go at it alone.

And you're right, Haskell is definitely worth it.

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