On 11/26/16 12:27 PM, Tobias Dammers wrote:
https://sprinkles.tobiasdammers.nl/ Hi Tobias, thanks for this. A few thoughts I had so far while trying it on OSX:
I love the concept! Holds the promise of significantly lowering the cost of building routine web apps. The flexibility of storage backends and content formats is great. I wished for a hackage release to try it out more easily. Installing all the C deps was not hard using brew, but I would have preferred if it just used the ones I have (postgres) and disabled the others (mysql, fcgi). The country demo failed some of the time due to the demo account exceeding its quota. I wishfully assumed it would reload all config files and content on the fly. Awww. I think that would be in keeping with it's "quick and easy" direction. Sprinkles doesn't make app development programming-free of course. It removes the compilation step (you still have to restart the app), and replaces functional, scalable Haskell programming with imperative, easy-to-start-with ginger and yaml code. Those do not look so lovely to a haskeller, but the advantages for rapid development and sharing with non-haskellers could be quite persuasive, especially with more dynamic reloading. Down the road, it seems also possible that such "interpreted" web apps could be mechanically "compiled" to some degree.