This is the sort of question you might want to ask on Haskell cafe too.
But
- This really comes down to whether the GC can trusted, and I would
astonished if it was otherwise. It would make writing web frameworks in
Haskell rather pointless. (Otoh I can't find a list of real world users for
Yesod etc.)
- A lot of people use XMonad to manage their desktops and just leave their
machines on *forever.*
- If Haskell does prove to be unsuitable (which is very unlikely) then
Erlang is a safe bet. It's about the most reliable language there is - it
was designed for telecoms. It's much simpler to learn than Haskell,
although less funky (eg no lazy evaluation) and closer to a scripting
language in speed. Get a copy of Programming *Erlang*: Software for a
Concurrent World by Joe *Armstrong* and with even minimal Haskell
experience you should be writing code straight away.
On 20 April 2012 03:43, Michael Orlitzky
On 04/19/2012 07:40 PM, Mike Meyer wrote:
I've got a project coming up that I could use haskell for, providing I can convince myself that it's appropriate. The critical question is:
Anyone using Haskell in a long-running production application? I'm talking about something where the program would run for weeks or months non-stop, with either multiple threads or multiple copies.
I have a rather stupid application that parses feeds from the Twitter API. For each username given on the command line, it calls forkIO and the new thread enters a recursive loop:
recurse x y z = do ... recurse x y z
forever and ever.
Contrary to my expectations (I still basically don't know what I'm doing in Haskell) it seems to run in constant space for months at a time.
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