[jbreckmckye]

> My past experience with Haskell web frameworks was that there weren't many packages for common things, and that when there were they took quite a bit of integration work to use nicely.

Congralulations, you read an email address out of a database! Commiserations, it was parsed into a LazyByteString and the rest of your stack demands a Text or a String or a CuneiformCodepointArray or whatever...

[_query]

IHP actually provides a `cs` (cs as an abbrev for convertString) function that is always in scope. With that function you can easily convert between all different string types.

[danpalmer]

Nice one. This sort of usability thing sounds simple enough, but having it is really nice, especially for newcomers.