On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Paul R
So Sergiu, my POV is that universal data stores is at best a glue targeting small projects, so that they can be hacked quickly. They offer a set of features that, by design, is the greatest common divisor of the backends, which unfortunately isn't that great. This is certainly nice for a do-a-blog-in-5-minutes with "MyFramework init" video tutorial, but probably not for industrial projects in the long run.
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Regarding your other option, the value behind the LLVM backend seems huge for the whole Haskell community. It has the power to lighten GHC, improve runtime performance, bring binaries to more platforms and much more. In my opinion, that's quiet exciting :)
I am absolutely not in the position to question or deny your conclusion. Obviously, I am not going to drop my commitment to the LLVM backend; however, I tried to find a second project idea that would interest me, and the idea of working on a universal data storage interface seemed quite attractive. It still seems attractive to me; mainly (but not only) because Greg said it could actually run of a purely Haskell backend, which means that, ideally, one could write Haskell programs with very little effort dedicated to storage. Sergiu