[Haskell-cafe] Paid work available in functional web programming

Yves Parès limestrael at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 17:15:07 CEST 2011


It'd also be interesting to know what you missed in Haskell web development
so that you needed to build a new language inspired from it.


2011/7/13 Christopher Done <chrisdone at googlemail.com>

> On 13 July 2011 15:28, Adam Chlipala <adamc at impredicative.com> wrote:
> > I write to mention briefly that I'm looking for people interested in
> writing
> > Ur/Web programs for pay.  Ur/Web is a DSL for building modern web
> > applications, and I believe it is truly a secret weapon for that domain,
> and
> > one that should appeal to many Haskell fans.  I have one customer now for
> > whom I'm leading a project to develop a particular web application, and
> I'd
> > like to have more.  The current project would benefit from more
> programming
> > help, and I would also like to develop a network of people interested in
> > future projects.
> >
> > More information on Ur/Web can be found here:
> >    http://www.impredicative.com/ur/
>
> I would like to see a real application in Ur/Web. There are many
> simple examples. I don't and wouldn't want to develop like that,
> writing raw HTML and SQL seems going backwards despite the incredible
> advances in consistency and correctness that Ur/Web offers. I also
> find it hard to understand the type system in a non-superficial level
> because the related paper was very hard to grok. I tried to get it
> running a while ago and could not get it to compile. I would also like
> to see how it handles non-web stuff as inevitably IME web applications
> involve more than merely reading and writing to a database.
>
> I like the idea, please keep us posted about it.
>
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