Besides our web app and batch pdf generation procedures, i use haskell for internal one-off tasks. Often i am being asked to import various data to database from text/excel files. Haskell is an excellent tool for this.
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:30:28 PM UTC-7, Jonathan Geddes 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! > > 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
