On 31 May 2012 01:30, Jonathan Geddes <[email protected]> wrote: > I love Haskell. It is my absolute favorite language. But I have a very hard > time finding places where I can actually use it! This has been bugging me for years and, like you, I think we ought to lean towards web-pages and mobile devices.
Yesod has been a tremendous push forward in this direction but, as you already stated, the browser and android devices remain mostly unexplored in Haskell. Here's my bit: - There's a port of ghc for iphone. - There's frege (http://code.google.com/p/frege/), a non-strict, pure, functional programming language in the spirit of Haskell. - I've been working as a freelance developer for some time now. I focus on desktop apps in Haskell. I can't say I'm overwhelmed by the amount of offers (speaking of which, if anyone needs a freelance haskell developer,... ahem), but this area will not be clinically "dead" as long as we cannot use web applications knowing (99% sure) that the owner of the website cannot use our personal information for any purpose other than giving us our service. There's only two kinds of clients here, though: those that explicitly want Haskell, and those than don't care about the programming language. Otherwise, you'll have to sell Haskell and, personally, I'm not that good a salesman (10% success, tops). - I've also ported Haskell designs to other programming languages (with small adaptations). I only found this cost-effective because the code in Haskell was not going to be thrown away. Good luck. Please, let us know what you find. Cheers, Ivan. > I had hoped that compiling Haskell to C with -fvia-C (or would it be just > -C?) would allow Haskell to run in new, uncharted territory such as Android > (with NDK), IOS, Google's NaCl, etc. But today I learned that GHC's C > backend has been deprecated! Is it more difficult than I am imagining to > get Haskell to work in these environments? Is it simply a matter of low > interest in this kind of work? Or something more fundamental? Am I missing > something? > > I'm hoping that the Haskell->JavaScript efforts will mature enough to make > Haskell viable for client-side web apps. (I think the first sign of this > will be a self-hosting Haskell->JavaScript compiler.) > > I use Haskell for Server-Side code with various web frameworks, but over the > years more and more of the app logic is moved into client-side JavaScript, > leaving the server-side code as little more than a simple validation and > security layer over the database and other services. Haskell doesn't have > any trouble with this, of course, but it's not exactly a role where it can > shine. (Of course this is not true of ALL server-side code, just the kind of > apps I have been writing.) > > So anyway I'd like to request feedback: where can I use Haskell besides > simple CLI utilities, dull server code, or project Euler problems? Even if > it's just to contribute to getting Haskell in the environments mentioned > above, any feedback is welcome! > > Thanks for reading, > > --J Arthur > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
