On 6 November 2010 12:20, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.zigans...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Ivan, > > Saturday, November 6, 2010, 4:05:38 AM, you wrote: > >> Possible candidates: >> * GHC >> * XMonad >> * Darcs > > for me, darcs and ghc are programmer's instruments. xmonad is real > application, having some utility outside of programmers community. > i'm looking for utility of haskell for "real world". i know that it's > used in-house (as in Deutsche Bank) or to build some solutions. what > i'm looking for is shareware or so, things that are usually written with > Delphi-class languages
At the moment, Haskell seems to be very developer-oriented, in that its main usages are for custom applications to solve problems rather than writing "consumer" software. >> Of course, it's hard to tell: do people actually use those packages >> once they've downloaded them? How do you measure downloads when some >> people use downstream binaries? > > for windows application download counter is good enough measure, at > least while we compare one program with another. unfortunately, xmonad > isn't a windows app :D Here's _some_ indications of download counts for XMonad: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=xmonad -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe