Distributed Systems in Haskell

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Post by philippelh » Sun, Jun 12, 2016, 6:33 PM UTC

Distributed Systems in Haskell
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Re: Distributed Systems in Haskell

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Post by wyager » Sun, Jun 12, 2016, 11:24 PM UTC

Author here. Glad to see this on HN! Happy to answer any questions.

Re: Distributed Systems in Haskell

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Post by state_less » Sun, Jun 12, 2016, 11:48 PM UTC

wyager wrote: post #2

Author here. Glad to see this on HN! Happy to answer any questions.

Thanks for the writeup! I am wanting to learn Haskell and this inspires confidence that one can develop larger projects using a more rigorous, less error prone approach. I like it.

Re: Distributed Systems in Haskell

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Post by domlebo70 » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 12:59 AM UTC

wyager wrote: post #2

Author here. Glad to see this on HN! Happy to answer any questions.

This was a great post. Really love how you walked through the example code.

Re: Distributed Systems in Haskell

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Post by cyknus » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 3:18 AM UTC

wyager wrote: post #2

Author here. Glad to see this on HN! Happy to answer any questions.

Why Haskell? What made you choose Haskell?

Re: Distributed Systems in Haskell

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Post by gnusouth » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 3:47 AM UTC

Did you run into any bugs or strange beahviour in Cloud Haskell? I looked into using it a while ago and came to the (possibly hasty) conclusion that it's not stable enough to build a large project on. Thanks!

Re: Distributed Systems in Haskell

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Post by wyager » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 4:08 AM UTC

cyknus wrote: post #5

wyager wrote: post #2

Author here. Glad to see this on HN! Happy to answer any questions.

Why Haskell? What made you choose Haskell?

For the first project, curiosity. For subsequent projects, the desire to repeat our experience with the first project.

Re: Distributed Systems in Haskell

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Post by wyager » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 4:10 AM UTC

gnusouth wrote: post #6

Did you run into any bugs or strange beahviour in Cloud Haskell? I looked into using it a while ago and came to the (possibly hasty) conclusion that it's not stable enough to build a large project on. Thanks!

None. It was rock solid; never a hiccup. It's evolving, but it seems quite well written and correct. As with many Haskell libraries in "beta", it works perfectly even though it's not finalized.

Re: Distributed Systems in Haskell

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Post by T-R » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 8:06 AM UTC

Distributed Programming was one of the things flagged "Immature" in State of the Haskell Ecosystem [1]. Just out of curiosity, was that a motivation behind the project, or do you have any other thoughts on that post-project?

[1] https://github.com/Gabriel439/post-rfc/blob/master/sotu.md#d...

Re: Distributed Systems in Haskell

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Post by selmat » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 8:22 AM UTC

Very interesting structure of explanation. I like your short sumarization (tl;dr) at beginning and "why?" reasoning. I think i will copy it in my next book :-)