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New language to learn? Write a toy. Spend more time on that toy than it warrants, re write it and someone else find it useful or fun. These programs are almost

by harry8 10y ago

New language to learn? Write a toy. Spend more time on that toy than it warrants, re write it and someone else find it useful or fun. These programs are almost wholly absent in Haskell. List all the programs used for something that isn't writing code that were written in haskell. Xmonad Pandoc Git-annexe maybe ... And. Please really do add to this list, its length is informative and tells us something about haskell's strength and weakness.

codygman 10y ago
> List all the programs used for something that isn't writing code that were written in haskell. As smugly as possible and with a huge grin: Purescript Some I can think of off the top: - PostgREST - hoodle - Microsoft Bond - git-annex - darcs
- harry8 10y ago
  So you don't use purescript for writing code according to your definition? Ok. Anyway, that aside the haskell pushers out there really need to address why there's so very little in the way of application written in haskell. The article notes that haskell is used very successfully for compilers. The number of successes elsewhere is very, very much smaller. Why? It's important not to just yell "rah rah" but actually analyse it as a problem and maybe, just maybe, you know, solve it.
  - nbouscal 10y ago
    Haskell is used successfully in industry, e.g. at Standard Chartered where they have >1MM lines of Haskell in production. Take a look: https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry
  - shae 10y ago
    Anecdotally, I see much commercial and personal use of Haskell. Have you looked at the other comments in this thread? Alternatively, why do you think there aren't small fun toys and/or commercial usage of Haskell?
shae 10y ago
This past weekend I wrote a program to read from Atlanta's mass transit JSON feed and display the times of upcoming trains in my tmux status line: https://github.com/shapr/tmuxmarta/ https://github.com/shapr/tmuxmarta/
dpiponi 10y ago
Does an Atari VCS emulator count as a toy? https://github.com/dpiponi/Stellarator https://github.com/dpiponi/Stellarator (Work in progress but many games work well.)
skew 10y ago
You haven't got many fun answers yet? Here are a few nice programs http://incredible.pm/ http://incredible.pm/ http://fluffynukeit.com/software/fnistash/ http://fluffynukeit.com/software/fnistash/ http://hledger.org/ http://hledger.org/ If you're looking for not-necessarily-polished personal toy projects, probably just about everything in Hackage's "Game" category fits: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/#cat:Game http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/#cat:Game Monadius has an interesting look. Sadly a touch of bitrot since 2013 - you'd need to `cabal get monadius` and edit --- Monadius-0.99/src/Monadius.hs 2013-05-28 +++ Monadius-fix/src/Monadius.hs 2017-01-25 @@ -18,5 +18,5 @@ import Data.List import Data.Maybe -import Graphics.UI.GLUT hiding (position) +import Graphics.UI.GLUT hiding (position, DebugMessage)

by harry8 10y ago

codygman 10y ago

> List all the programs used for something that isn't writing code that were written in haskell. As smugly as possible and with a huge grin: Purescript Some I can think of off the top: - PostgREST - hoodle - Microsoft Bond - git-annex - darcs

harry8 10y ago
So you don't use purescript for writing code according to your definition? Ok. Anyway, that aside the haskell pushers out there really need to address why there's so very little in the way of application written in haskell. The article notes that haskell is used very successfully for compilers. The number of successes elsewhere is very, very much smaller. Why? It's important not to just yell "rah rah" but actually analyse it as a problem and maybe, just maybe, you know, solve it.
- nbouscal 10y ago
  Haskell is used successfully in industry, e.g. at Standard Chartered where they have >1MM lines of Haskell in production. Take a look: https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry
- shae 10y ago
  Anecdotally, I see much commercial and personal use of Haskell. Have you looked at the other comments in this thread? Alternatively, why do you think there aren't small fun toys and/or commercial usage of Haskell?

shae 10y ago

This past weekend I wrote a program to read from Atlanta's mass transit JSON feed and display the times of upcoming trains in my tmux status line: https://github.com/shapr/tmuxmarta/ https://github.com/shapr/tmuxmarta/

dpiponi 10y ago

Does an Atari VCS emulator count as a toy? https://github.com/dpiponi/Stellarator https://github.com/dpiponi/Stellarator (Work in progress but many games work well.)

skew 10y ago

You haven't got many fun answers yet? Here are a few nice programs http://incredible.pm/ http://incredible.pm/ http://fluffynukeit.com/software/fnistash/ http://fluffynukeit.com/software/fnistash/ http://hledger.org/ http://hledger.org/ If you're looking for not-necessarily-polished personal toy projects, probably just about everything in Hackage's "Game" category fits: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/#cat:Game http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/#cat:Game Monadius has an interesting look. Sadly a touch of bitrot since 2013 - you'd need to `cabal get monadius` and edit --- Monadius-0.99/src/Monadius.hs 2013-05-28 +++ Monadius-fix/src/Monadius.hs 2017-01-25 @@ -18,5 +18,5 @@ import Data.List import Data.Maybe -import Graphics.UI.GLUT hiding (position) +import Graphics.UI.GLUT hiding (position, DebugMessage)