I can't help myself, I have to try to talk you out of the use of distributed-process. ;)

It is hard to use, requiring at least some understanding of Erlang's process model and some implementation details of distributed-process itself. It also uses EDSL for pattern-matching of messages, and that makes you lose compiler guarantees like pattern match completeness.

If I may offer an alternative, please, consider DSTM: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/DSTM

My experience with distributed systems (some HPC, a couple of blockchains and a couple of databases) shows that what is usually needed is a distributed transactional memory. One usually needs atomic and consistent orchestration of computations in a distributed setting, which is most easier to obtain through, well, distributed software transactional memory.

It also contains an implementation of a simple game as an example. ;)

чт, 3 февр. 2022 г. в 20:38, stuebinm via Haskell-Cafe <haskell-cafe@haskell.org>:
Hi all!

I've been meaning to do more with concurrent (and parallel) haskell, and
having looked around a bit on hackage (and being a fan of Erlang's OTP)
the cloud haskell packages seem like a dream come true. But only at
first glance — the last release of distributed-process [1], which looks
to be the main library, was in 2018, and many of the other packages are
older. The "recent news" section of the website [2] even has its last
entry from 2016!

So I'd be assuming that the project has been abandoned, yet on github
[3] it looks to still be (comparatively) alive and well, with activity
just a few months ago.

So what's the current status there? Is anyone here using it
productively, or involved in its development / knows if or when to
expect a new release?

thanks!

~stuebinm


[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/distributed-process
[2] http://haskell-distributed.github.io/
[3] https://github.com/haskell-distributed/distributed-process
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