On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Don Stewart
bos:
Jonathan Gardner wrote:
Where do I get started in writing a web app with Haskell? I am looking more for a framework like Pylons and less like Apache, if that helps.
The closest we currently have to a web framework is Happs (http://happs.org/), but it uses the kitchen sink of advanced and unusual language extensions, which I think might be why it hasn't got all that much momentum.
There's also WASH, but that has an even lower profile. I couldn't tell you if it sees much use, or even builds with recent compilers.
Perhaps it is time for a haskell web apps wiki page, if there isn't one, outlining the approaches, with a structure like:
* HAppS * CGI - FastCGI
* Database solutions - HDBC - Takusen
* Templating - HStringTemplate
* JSON rpc
etc.
There's this: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Practical_web_programming_in_Haskell It doesn't mention many of the above, but they would be nice additions. The page should probably be split into several though. /Bjorn