[Haskell-cafe] current status of cloud haskell?

[Jonn Mostovoy]

Semi-solicited advertisement of purerl.
It works and is actively used in production.
It even has an actor framework a la Erlang OTP:
https://github.com/id3as/purescript-erl-pinto

I've chatted with purerl devs, who are really nice too, and if I had a
budget, I would absolutely make a concurrent system with it.

On Thu, 3 Feb 2022, 22:12 Will Yager, <will.yager at gmail.com> wrote:

> I used distributed-process 5 or 6 years ago when I was in uni for a
> distributed systems class. It was pretty nice, but I have no idea about its
> current maintenance.
>
> I wrote a blog post at the time with some thoughts on design patterns etc.
> http://yager.io/Distributed/Distributed.html
>
> On Feb 3, 2022, at 15:54, A.M. <agentm at themactionfaction.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/3/22 12:32, stuebinm via Haskell-Cafe wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> I've been meaning to do more with concurrent (and parallel) haskell, and
> having looked around a bit on hackage (and being a fan of Erlang's OTP) the
> cloud haskell packages seem like a dream come true. But only at first
> glance — the last release of distributed-process [1], which looks to be the
> main library, was in 2018, and many of the other packages are older. The
> "recent news" section of the website [2] even has its last entry from 2016!
>
> So I'd be assuming that the project has been abandoned, yet on github [3]
> it looks to still be (comparatively) alive and well, with activity just a
> few months ago.
>
> So what's the current status there? Is anyone here using it productively,
> or involved in its development / knows if or when to expect a new release?
>
>
> Hi stuebinm,
>
> We were using distributed-process within our own project until it was too
> much effort to keep up with newer GHC releases and packages.
>
> We were able to replace distributed-process and friends with our own much
> more lightweight curryer-rpc library[1] for the simple use-case of TCP
> client-server interaction.
>
> Cheers,
> M
>
>
> 1. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/curryer-rpc
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