Christopher Done
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/