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By Ehud Lamm at 2007-02-23 09:13 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 7600 reads

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heavy on computation, light on I/O

All the 3 projects are heavy on computation, light on I/O. I wonder if it is a coincidence.

By Achilleas Margaritis at Fri, 2007-02-23 12:33 | login or register to post comments

It's not, but it has more to

It's not, but it has more to do with Haskell being good for computation than poor for IO. It's not prime-time ready yet, but you might want to take a look at HApps.

By Philippa Cowderoy at Fri, 2007-02-23 13:10 | login or register to post comments

Thanks. It seems promising...

Here is the link:

http://happs.org/HAppS/README.html

My company is about to write a framework for web apps on top of ThinWire The framework will consist of database-aware widgets and forms with database-related functionality requested almost by every customer. The whole thing will be made with Java.

The question is: is HAPPS any good? can I suggest it to my company? is it backed up by a team that won't disappear in the near future? can a company bet on it?

I tried to find out more about it but I am not satisfied with what I have found so far. The changes log says there was a massive rewrite of it in version 0.8 (not very encouraging!), and there is still missing functionality served by third party modules.

I have the impression that it is not ready yet, but that's just a not-very informed opinion, I guess. More on this will be appreciated.

By Achilleas Margaritis at Sat, 2007-02-24 10:52 | login or register to post comments

Certainly it wasn't ready

Certainly it wasn't ready yet the last time I had a solid degree of info on it - though that was back in August. I don't think it's ready yet, you're probably better off asking someone who's working on it about where it is currently though. I don't see the current team disappearing outright too quickly, but I'm not sure I'd take my own call on that either.

The big changes in 0.8 were (as far as I can tell) less of a necessity and more a case of doing the Right Thing - talking to people is probably the way to go there. But waiting for 1.0 or something close may be a good idea too.

The biggest answer so far, unfortunately, is don't ask me! :-) But while I don't think it's ready, I do think it will be and it's certainly a big project going somewhere that does IO, as per the original question.

By Philippa Cowderoy at Sat, 2007-02-24 11:31 | login or register to post comments

Darcs?

Is that really true of Darcs? Sure there's probably a fair bit of computation that needs doing for working out and applying the patches, but it seems like it's got to do a lot of IO in order to diff and merge changes.

By David R. MacIver at Fri, 2007-02-23 13:07 | login or register to post comments