Re: [Haskell-beginners] Web frameworks

That's a very good question, to which Chris and Lyndon have already hinted at the answer. But there's more to it than that: * Julius (Javascript) actually isn't a different syntax at all, it's simply a pass-through parser. * With Lucius and Cassius (for CSS), each one provides some syntactic sugar over plain CSS that people like. * All three languages allow for variable interpolation, including type-safe URL interpolation. * Lucius and Cassius automatically minify their output. * We get many compile-time checks, but on variable existence and correct typeness, and well-formedness of the file. * These systems compose very nicely via widgets. * And via these widgets, we're able to easily concatenate multiple templates into a single file to be efficiently served via one HTTP request. Michael On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Haisheng Wu wrote:

Yesod is cool though I know a little about that. Actually I have one question that what's the reason it has 'special' (a better word?) style at programming CSS and JavaScripts? Seems like no other frameworks doing that? (Correct me if I am wrong) Thanks. -Simon

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Christopher Done wrote:

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On 17 June 2011 14:53, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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I'm not saying Happstack or Snap are bad frameworks, quite the opposite. But I don't think these generic "X isn't mature" or "Y has bad documentation" do much to help newcomers become acclimated.

I'll back this up, Yesod has quite an extensive book with tips and tricks including corner cases and such: http://www.yesodweb.com/book

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I'd like to respectfully disagree with this assessment. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "mature", but Yesod has been developed actively for two years, has the vast majority of features you'll need on a project, is in use by many production settings and has the highest performance figures of any of the big three frameworks.

FWIW I think he means the API changes, not that the software itself is runtime-stable. The "developed actively" may imply a changing API. I don't know whether this is true, but I think that's what he meant. Anyway, I doubt maturity as in runtime stability matters that much to newbies. _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners