[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] First Public Release of the Snap Framework

[Christopher Done]

Agreed, I think Snap just raised the bar for presentation of Haskell
libraries. It even has a custom Haddock style sheet! I'm glad it is
built up of separate packages. I also look forward to using it.

On 22 May 2010 09:10, Chris Eidhof <chris at eidhof.nl> wrote:
> Awesome! Congratulations on the first release, I look forward to working with it. Also, the web design is great, possibly the best designed Haskell library website I've seen so far.
>
> -chris
>
> On 22 mei 2010, at 07:25, Gregory Collins wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> To coincide with Hac Phi 2010
>> (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac_%CF%86), the Snap team is happy
>> to announce the first public release of the Snap Framework, a simple and
>> fast Haskell web programming server and library for unix systems. For
>> installation instructions, documentation, and more information, see our
>> website at http://snapframework.com/.
>>
>> Snap is well-documented and has a test suite with a high level of code
>> coverage, but it is early-stage software with still-evolving interfaces. Snap
>> is therefore most likely to be of interest to early adopters and potential
>> contributors.
>>
>> Snap is BSD-licensed and currently only runs on Unix platforms; it has been
>> developed and tested on Linux and Mac OSX Snow Leopard.
>>
>> Snap Features:
>>
>> * A simple and clean monad for web programming, similar to happstack's but
>>   simpler.
>>
>> * A *fast* HTTP server library with an optional high-concurrency backend
>>   (using libev).
>>
>> * An XML-based templating system for generating xhtml that allows you to bind
>>   Haskell functionality to XML tags in your templates.
>>
>> * Some useful utilities for web handlers, including gzip compression and
>>   fileServe.
>>
>> * Iteratee-based I/O, allowing composable streaming in O(1) space without any
>>   of the unpredictable consequences of lazy I/O.
>>
>> If you have questions or comments, please contact us on our mailing list
>> (http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/snap) or in the
>> #snapframework channel on the freenode IRC network.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> G
>> --
>> Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
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