With few exceptions, no such thing as a killer server-side app.
The Web 3.0 paradigm is simple: all work except sharing and
persistence of data is done on the client.
Regards,
John A. De Goes
N-Brain, Inc.
The Evolution of Collaboration
http://www.n-brain.net | 877-376-2724 x 101
On Oct 3, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Mark Wotton wrote:
Hi,
I've been writing a little binding from Ruby to Haskell called
Hubris (http://github.com/mwotton/Hubris) which I think has some
potential both for making Haskell web apps easier to write, and also
for bringing the more adventurous Ruby programmers into the Haskell
community. Code-wise it's coming along nicely, and once 6.12 is out
it'll run without modifications at least on Linux (remains to be
seen how long it'll take to get the Mac patches into shape). My real
problem is marketing: I need a killer app that shows it's easy
either to
1. wrap a kickarse Haskell library in a convenient Ruby web app shell
2. speed up a poorly performing Ruby web app
I've been badgering the Ruby guys in Sydney that I know on the
second point, but either none of them have performance problems, or
none of them want to admit it. The first is entirely possible - if
you only attack the subset of problems where your runtime is
dominated by the database and network latency, language performance
is moot. Conversely, if that's your worldview, the other problems
that could be attacked won't ever come to mind (to monstrously abuse
the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis).
So, I'm asking you guys. What are some really nice Haskell libraries
or apps that could benefit from being shown off in one of the
plethora of slick, mature web frameworks that exist in Ruby? Manuel
Chakravarty suggested something with vector operations in order to
take advantage of his 'accelerate' library (once it gets a GPU
backend, of course), and more generally, something taking advantage
of Haskell's support for multicore would be cool. (The standard
edition of Ruby is still unicore, I believe.)
Parenthetically yours,
Mark
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