[web-devel] Re: consolidating Haskell's web-framework scene

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:10:35 -0700

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"Michael" == wrote:

Michael> I am very interested in trying to continue consolidation, but Michael> I think aiming for the One True Haskell Framework is a bad Michael> idea. I didn't think about One True Haskell Framework, but about, at least one, which can run on shared hosting using nginx, cherokee, lighty server, some templating engine, database back-end and decently documented. Michael> Python- the community known for One Way To Do It- can't even Michael> consolidate around a single framework, so Haskell- the Michael> language of We Can All Write A Monad Transformers Library- Michael> doesn't stand a chance. That's true, but Python is much bigger community in comparison and, afaics, Python web frameworks have lot of docs, some even many books written about them. Michael> So where can we consolidate? On libraries. I have purposely Michael> released a number of the components of Yesod as separate Michael> libraries that are available to any framework author (or even Michael> someone *not* using a framework). That's great and I'm very happy seeing that Happstack may become WAI-ready. Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Hlapicina, Croatia | GPG key: F96FF5F6 ----------------------------------------------------------------