On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Alejandro Serrano Mena <trup...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm really looking forward to helping in the Summer of Code, if Haskell goes > into it this year (something I take for granted :). I would like to propose > an idea for a project, and I'm looking for suggestions about whether it's > good, should be improved or it's just unfeasible. > > My idea is to make a client-side Haskell Web Toolkit, in the spirit of > Google Web Toolkit, which would allow to program in Haskell the client part > of a web application, and would complement the web frameworks already > existing for Haskell (such as Yesod and Snap). The point is coming about > with a Haskell-ish way to program applications, to reuse all the existing > knowledge for our beloved language. > > I've added more details in a pre-proposal in Google Docs, available > inĀ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FnTNO9uTobDHRTDXWurKns7vGTjeauw0nRhbtt6vavs/edit > Tell me if you prefer to see it in other format, but I didn't want to > generate a bigger e-mail. > > Thanks in advance.
I definitely think the idea has merit. In general I'm wary of solutions which try to compile down to Javascript[1], and I'm not sure if actually providing a full Haskell-to-JS approach is a good idea. Another possibility might be a DSL/combinator library for generating JS. Though at this point, I wouldn't rule out either approach. Yesod is currently wrapping up its 1.0 release (almost certainly out-the-door by the end of April), and after that our main focus is intended to be client-side integration, so we would certainly be happy to discuss design ideas and collaborate in general. Michael [1] I say "compile down to" to mean nontrivial changes, as opposed to something like Coffeescript, which is a fairly simple conversion. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe