17 Jul
2007
17 Jul
'07
6:17 p.m.
On 7/17/07, Martin Coxall
I wonder why 'we' aren't pushing things like this big time. When Ruby took off, more than anything else it was because of Rails. Web programming is something 'the kids' can really get into, and it caused Ruby to explode into the mainstream geek consciousness.
Maybe the Haskell community should push something like Happs or Wash in the same way.
I'm gonna agree with this. Web applications are really easy to write, and easy to publish, searchable in Google etc. It's also a big business requirement. The difference in value between a script that does something fancy, and a webpage that does something less fancy, but is easy to use, is enormous.