[web-devel] Re: ANNOUNCE: yesod 0.2.0

On Mon, 24 May 2010 19:20:02 +0300

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"Michael" == wrote:

Michael> Snap is definitely *not* geared at shared hosting. I Michael> discussed this with Gregory a while ago, and unless he's Michael> changed his mind since, they're not interested in anything Michael> but dedicated hosting. So I would definitely say stick with Michael> FastCGI (or CGI... I'm working on some benchmarks right now). I've asked the other day on #snapframework, and the response was "that use case is not very relevant for any of us but we know people are interested in that", so it does not sound as definite 'no', but who knows... Michael> > I know that since implementing this feature in Yesod it's > Michael> completely changed the way I write web apps. There's no more Michael> fear of changing my URL structure: I just do it, and the Michael> compiler tells me if I need to fix anything. If Yesod goes in Michael> the advertising direction, this will most likely be the top Michael> item on the list. Why should Yesod not go into (more) advertising? ;) Michael> > I personally prefer the Yesod approach, but of course I'm a Michael> > biased source. Michael> I found writing code against Snap to be a little... unnatural. I did not try (hard) enough neither with Yesod, nor with Snap, but none did not look 'natural' to me either. Maybe it's because I did not do any web programming and being only exposed to Django-way of things. We hope it will change when we go deeper... Michael> > Given my current line of employment, RDBMS is my top Michael> priority for the persistence layer. My thought right now is Michael> to start with MySQL, since it has the weakest Haskell support Michael> at the moment. Heh, I vote for PostgreSQL although sqlite3 would be probably enough to serve blog(gy), but I assume those will be supported as well. Michael> Ideas are percolating, but I haven't had a chance to actually Michael> write something concrete yet. OK. Wish you some 'enlightenment'. ;) Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Hlapicina, Croatia | GPG key: F96FF5F6 ----------------------------------------------------------------