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Our ways to hide that logic has been building libraries that handle nearly all of it.

But since Haskell's ecosystem is small by comparison a lot of that logic leaks to your own application code. Especially when dealing with something like stateful websocket applications.

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A general-purpose library able to hide the necessarily specific logic of how network events and a poker game should interact seems... unlikely?

Sure, but the original argument was: > raw connection state, timers, transient and long-term persistent state

Much of this surely can be abstracted away to 3rd party libraries/frameworks. Haskell, even though a higher level language than most out there, lacks the ecosystem support for a lot of things that are handled by some library in lower level languages.

The point was that these things need to be handled unusually in the case of a poker server in particular. If that's true, then a general purpose library that's handling them invisibly is probably handling them wrong for this use case.

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