On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Paul R <paul.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So Sergiu, my POV is that universal data stores is at best a glue > targeting small projects, so that they can be hacked quickly. They offer > a set of features that, by design, is the greatest common divisor of the > backends, which unfortunately isn't that great. This is certainly nice > for a do-a-blog-in-5-minutes with "MyFramework init" video tutorial, but > probably not for industrial projects in the long run. [...] > Regarding your other option, the value behind the LLVM backend seems > huge for the whole Haskell community. It has the power to lighten GHC, > improve runtime performance, bring binaries to more platforms and much > more. In my opinion, that's quiet exciting :)
I am absolutely not in the position to question or deny your conclusion. Obviously, I am not going to drop my commitment to the LLVM backend; however, I tried to find a second project idea that would interest me, and the idea of working on a universal data storage interface seemed quite attractive. It still seems attractive to me; mainly (but not only) because Greg said it could actually run of a purely Haskell backend, which means that, ideally, one could write Haskell programs with very little effort dedicated to storage. Sergiu _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe