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Haskell's advantages (and disadvantages) as a Web Framework are generally the same as in any other application domain: performance, concurrency, and correctness
by jamwt 15y ago
Haskell's advantages (and disadvantages) as a Web Framework are generally the same as in any other application domain: performance, concurrency, and correctness.
- zura 15y agoWhile I agree regarding correctness and concurrency, I wouldn't emphasize performance, even for Java and .NET, whose GCs are more developed, tuned and tested in the production environment than Haskell's one. Edit: And for Haskell, achieving needed performance can be quite tricky with regard to its laziness.
- jamesbritt 15y agoThere was some discussion on HN about the Snap Web framework benchmarks relative to some other frameworks: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1380405 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1380405 No .Net in there, though.
- danieldk 15y agoEdit: And for Haskell, achieving needed performance can be quite tricky with regard to its laziness. But Snap is driven by enumerators/iteratees (via the enumerator package), which make it much easier to do fast near-constant space IO. I have built a web application that uses Snap to query large (parse) treebanks, and it was easy to make it performant.