I have used Ruby (and Sinatra, Rails, Merb in the old days, etc.) for many years, and I found my own transition to developing in Haskell to be refreshing.
I find Haskell development to be fun and interactive in the spirit of Lisp and Ruby. I have professionally programmed in various Lisp dialects since 1981, and I find that Ruby, Lisp, and Haskell feel like the same party.
We're always interested in learning and exploring new things.
While we love Ruby and Rails and we've been fortunate to have chosen Rails very early on, as people who want to enjoy our tools, we don't want to miss out on finding the next thing we love to work with.
Seems that most of the problems involved deployment on Heroku, suggesting that Heroku is not a good platform for deploying Haskell. Perhaps if you're changing language the rest of the process should change as well?
Great article, I really look forward to future blogs about Haskell and web development. I'm also interested in how Haskell can improve my software for myself and my clients.
I've found the type system combined with using the repl to do iterative development to be a huge productivity and stability win.
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While we love Ruby and Rails and we've been fortunate to have chosen Rails very early on, as people who want to enjoy our tools, we don't want to miss out on finding the next thing we love to work with.
Seems that most of the problems involved deployment on Heroku, suggesting that Heroku is not a good platform for deploying Haskell. Perhaps if you're changing language the rest of the process should change as well?
I've found the type system combined with using the repl to do iterative development to be a huge productivity and stability win.