Re:What Is Good About Haskell?
by eterps on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:27AM
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This a 100%. If Haskell proponents focused more on stuff that is described in https://pragprog.com/book/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-functi... instead of algorithms a lot more devs could use it in their day-to-day job.
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Re:What Is Good About Haskell?
by yakshaving_jgt on Thursday October 03, 2019 @07:46AM
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It's all there to be used, it's just unfortunately Haskell proponents seem not to talk about it as much. Most of the discussion is around "interesting" stuff.
My company does everything in Haskell, but it's almost all just boring plumbing code. APIs, JSON, databases, HTTP stuff, HTML templating, etc. It works great.
Exactly this. I've been meaning to write a blog post about what my team does with Haskell for the last 3 years, and while I think there are some gems of information we could provide to the world, at the end of the day it's incredibly boring stuff that works well for us and isn't really worth mentioning because it's not that different from what everyone else is doing with their own favorite language and tooling.
Can you share any of your toolchain and stack?
Re:What Is Good About Haskell?
by yakshaving_jgt on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:41AM
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Sure. Here you go.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21024494
As for libraries we use heavily (in no particular order): Yesod, Persistent, Esqueleto, Lens, Lens-Aeson, Hedis, STM, Wreq, Shakespeare, Hspec.