Can anyone comment on writing erlang style apps in Haskell?
Haskell appears to have many of the required ingredients: Cheap multi threading, immutability and the Cloud Haskell[1] framework, with the added benefits of speed and the awesome type system.
I currently use eventlet and ZeroMQ in python to emulate a similar (and probably crappier) style of writing message passing concurrency apps. With the addition of protocol buffers this type of architecture is easily applicable to a multi language set up. I'd be very interested to see what others are doing.
Has anyone who's used erlang tried playing with Haskell in the same role?
They're targetting slightly different points on the power/safety spectrum.
* Erlang: fault tolerance, distributed systems, absolute performance less important.
* Haskell: correctness important, multicore+shared memory performance a main focus, distributed systems less of a focus (cloud haskell)
I wouldn't write my webserver in Erlang, for example, but my distributed object store, that's another story.
Thanks for the link, I remember reading it a while back. Have you played with the cloud haskell stuff at all? I seems you were able to achieve most of what you wanted with STM channels for combinatorrent - do you think that the presence of cloud haskell might have made any difference?
Haskell appears to have many of the required ingredients: Cheap multi threading, immutability and the Cloud Haskell[1] framework, with the added benefits of speed and the awesome type system.
I currently use eventlet and ZeroMQ in python to emulate a similar (and probably crappier) style of writing message passing concurrency apps. With the addition of protocol buffers this type of architecture is easily applicable to a multi language set up. I'd be very interested to see what others are doing.
Has anyone who's used erlang tried playing with Haskell in the same role?
[1] https://github.com/jepst/CloudHaskell