Christopher Done <chrisd...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I write to mention briefly that I'm looking for people interested in > > writing Ur/Web programs for pay. Ur/Web is a DSL for building > > modern web applications, and I believe it is truly a secret weapon > > for that domain, and one that should appeal to many Haskell fans. I > > have one customer now for whom I'm leading a project to develop a > > particular web application, and I'd like to have more. The current > > project would benefit from more programming help, and I would also > > like to develop a network of people interested in future projects. > > I would like to see a real application in Ur/Web. There are many > simple examples. I don't and wouldn't want to develop like that, > writing raw HTML and SQL seems going backwards despite the incredible > advances in consistency and correctness that Ur/Web offers.
I agree about the HTML part, but not so much about the SQL part. Personally I went back from all the nice abstractions to writing raw SQL, because I realized that this is the only way to really exploit the power of my database system (PostgreSQL) [1]. [1] http://coder.mx/journal/yesod-persistent-vs-sql > I also find it hard to understand the type system in a non-superficial > level because the related paper was very hard to grok. I tried to get > it running a while ago and could not get it to compile. I would also > like to see how it handles non-web stuff as inevitably IME web > applications involve more than merely reading and writing to a > database. > > I like the idea, please keep us posted about it. I like the continuation part about it. If there were a web framework in Haskell similar to the continuation-based framework in Racket or Ur/Web, I would most certainly switch to it (from Yesod), given that it's mature enough. Greets, Ertugrul -- nightmare = unsafePerformIO (getWrongWife >>= sex) http://ertes.de/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
