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Ask HN: Minimalist Web Framework for Haskell?

5 points by agentargo ↗ HN
I am beginning a senior design project at CU-Boulder, where we work with local businesses to create a year-long project to be used by said businessess. Most of the past projects have been nothing to write home about.

Screw that.

I want to do something sweet, and get some experience repping a product.

Does the HN community think that a minimalist web framework for Haskell could gain traction?

I was thinking a routing based framework similar to Sinatra or Node.js. Are there enough Haskell devs or willing-to-be-Haskell-devs out there for this product to be useful?

Any other ideas for that matter?

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jmreardon
There's Happstack too: http://happstack.com/index.html . That said, there are quite a few little Haskell web frameworks/libraries floating around already, so unless you're bringing something absolutely amazing to the table compared to what's there now, I don't see much point in building yet another Haskell web framework.

Looking at the course ( I take it this is what you are talking about? http://www.cs.colorado.edu/ugrad/seniorproject/ ), it seems that your project is based on a proposal from a sponsor, so I'm not sure why you're trying to come up with something already.

I don't know why you have a problem with the past projects. That a couple of undergrads can put together a working, useful (I presume), application is freaking awesome! I wouldn't dare assume a random CS major fresh out of university could pull something like that off.

pietrofmaggi
Haskell on a Horse (HoH) is a combinatorial web framework for the programming language Haskell. It is currently at an early, unsettled stage of development. It is available under the "BSD3" open-source license.

http://haskell.on-a-horse.org/