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I've seen this come up on reddit ads - has anyone tried it out ? Does it live up to the claim that its Rail's for Haskell ? How does it compare to any of the other web frameworks out there ?

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I tried it out about a month ago, and my sense was it's definitely on the right track, but I wouldn't by any means put it into production yet. The UI was surprisingly useful rather than gimmicky, and the use of types was very cool. I was particularly impressed with the migrations framework, which was really easy to work with.

I didn't get too far into it, though, because at the time it didn't support the Haskell language server, which made exploring the framework hard. They've added support for that since then, so I'm looking forward to trying it again. I'd also love to hear people's experiences, if anyone has gotten further in it.

> at the time it didn't support the Haskell language server

It does now:

https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/Guide/editors.html#notes-on...

I tried it this weekend as I wanted to convert a Flask prototype into something in a typed language. I’ve used Servant (Haskell) for other prototypes. For this particular demo, there were more JSON REST endpoints than “pages”, so both Servant and Http4s (Scala) felt more natural here to me.

Installing it was easy, even though this was my first time using Nix. I think shipping things with Nix, especially when what you ship is integrated, can be superior in Haskell to using stack or cabal. (Stack is easier, cabal is more flexible, neither handle dependencies outside of Haskell.)

I’ll definitely come back and check it out for another prototype soon. :)

Interesting. I too am waiting for something ML-typed to tempt me away from Python/Flask. I render mostly server-side but based on services that actually or potentially serve JSON (it’s all one process but I’m careful that services don’t leak model objects)

I'm using it for a hobby project! It's been great to actually be able to quickly build something while learning haskell, the folks on the slack are helpful and it's inspiring to see how quickly the framework develops.

I don't have any experience with Rails or other haskell frameworks.

I kind of like it. I haven't got far, but I think how it will work is to let it serve pages for the admin site, and provide JSON API to a stateful frontend.

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