[Haskell-cafe] Message passing library

[Christopher Allen]

Another library to keep in mind could be slave-thread:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/slave-thread – potentially useful if you
have forkIO'd processors of messages.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Christopher Allen <cma at bitemyapp.com>
wrote:

> What isn't satisfactory with what you currently have? Are you just looking
> for more support so you don't have to DIY? Cloud Haskell and Courier both
> have an in-memory backends, so I'm not sure how to whittle things down yet
> without other candidate libraries/tech to consider. The only other options
> that come to mind right now as being related to message passing go in the
> opposite direction of what you want, like Kafka.
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Corentin Dupont <
> corentin.dupont at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Actually I only need to pass messages between processes with a queue...
>> No need for network... Sorry it was not clear :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Christopher Allen <cma at bitemyapp.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I believe the primary contenders would be Cloud Haskell [1] and Courier
>>> [2].
>>>
>>> [1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/distributed-process and
>>> http://haskell-distributed.github.io/
>>>
>>> [2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/courier
>>>
>>> Cloud Haskell is probably more widely used. I don't know if they're
>>> leveraging Static Pointers yet, but the feature was motivated in part by
>>> their needs.
>>>
>>> We mostly use Pipes, TCP sockets, and Binary but I think you're looking
>>> for something more reliable. Probably someone will recommend ZeroMQ. I'd
>>> steer clear of ZeroMQ unless you have an intimate understanding of it and
>>> how to work around its quirks.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Corentin Dupont <
>>> corentin.dupont at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> what would you recommend as a message passing library?
>>>> Essentially, I would to replace this library
>>>> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/eprocess
>>>> by something more mainstream.
>>>> It is used in Hint-server:
>>>> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hint-server
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Corentin
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>
>
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