If what bothers you is writing SQL code (and I could easily understand), you may wanna check persistent. It uses Template Haskell to generate for you the necessary marshalling and tables definition, so you just handle haskell datatypes.
(^^ Michael just outposted [1] me).
For json serialization, aeson (normal or enumerator-based flavour) might be nice.
For brutal binary serialization, you may like binary or cereal (I don't know the dis/advantages of both, except that the last time I checked, cereal only handled strict bytestrings).
For XML I don't know, since use it the least I can.
[1] I don't know if there is such a word. Sorry, I'm french.
Hi,
It has been on my todo list for some time now. I'd like to write a GTD tool that has dependency tracking support. Haskell seems like a good choice for this. I was wondering if there has been any past attempts with this?
One thing that has been bothering me has been this - the persistence of data. Should I use sqlite(or someother DB) or should I use Haskell's read/show functions to read from and write to a file? I am slightly not inclined towards NOT using DB because I want to implement all the business logic in Haskell. I want to avoid having to generate SQL.
It'll be great if I could get some feedback on the "read/show" approach - is this even a viable option?
Regards,
Kashyap