On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <
bos@serpentine.com> wrote:
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.
My web host has GHC 6.6 and it builds fine. I like WASH quite a lot, though it may be a bit heavy-weight for certain applications in the way it does sessions (though it works really well e.g. when users click the back button etc.). Maybe zipping up the session state or something would help there (or maybe it already does this?) - on my simple toy site it takes up around 30% of the total size, which is a bit hefty.
Oh yeah, I use the preprocessor thing to get the nice syntax, but it's a bit messy when things go wrong since it passes through a preprocessor before being compiled.