Reflections on Using Haskell for My Startup

Re:Reflections on Using Haskell for My Startup by nouveaux on Friday February 19, 2021 @11:49AM (#26194992)

Javascript: webpack, gulp, sass, react, node, npm/yarn. The whole frontend ecosystem is consolidating but I would not consider this trivial. Experienced programmers coming into Javascript still stumble over these tools.

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Re:Reflections on Using Haskell for My Startup by sokoloff on Friday February 19, 2021 @12:08PM (#26195225)

I think the first 5 minute experience is really good in React at this point.

  npx create-react-app foo-app
  cd foo-app
  yarn start

In ~2 minutes (10 if you had to install node/npm/npx), you have a hot-reloading live site to play with.

That doesn’t make React great nor solve all of the issues that lie between minute 1 and v0.1 in production, but the startup is smooth and painless (for me who comes from C/C++/C#/SQL, and my javascript is at a level where beginners can still help me).

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Re:Reflections on Using Haskell for My Startup by ghostwriter on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:20PM (#26198767)

The first 2-minute experience with a Haskell web service:

  curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
  
  cat > ./script.sh <<EOF
  #! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
  #! nix-shell <nixpkgs> -i runghc -p "ghc.withPackages (x: [ x.yesod ])"
  {-# LANGUAGE ExtendedDefaultRules #-}
  {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings    #-}
  {-# LANGUAGE QuasiQuotes          #-}
  {-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell      #-}
  {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies         #-}
  import Yesod
  
  data App = App
  
  mkYesod "App" [parseRoutes|
    / HomeR GET
  |]
  
  instance Yesod App
  
  getHomeR = return $ object ["msg" .= "Hello!"]
  port     = 3000
  
  main = warp port App
  EOF
  
  chmod +x ./script.sh
  
  ./script.sh

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