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by Fixnum
4959 days ago
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Until recently, Haskell didn't have an equivalent to Erlang's built-in support for distributed computing, but the new Cloud Haskell library (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cloud_Haskell) provides message-passing concurrency with a semantics very close to that of Erlang (but with more support for type-safety). I'm not sure Cloud Haskell is ready to dethrone Erlang (and the OTP framework, and tooling for debugging distributed processes, and special VM features, ...) for high-reliability distributed computing today, but Haskell and its libraries are evolving with absurd speed and the Cloud Haskell ecosystem could certainly be competitive with Erlang in the near future. Haskell can certainly be used to write high-performance network applications (e.g., Mighttpd, Warp), so it's surely only a matter of time ... |
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But, they should change its name so that it sounds like a library and not another language dilect. :)
Judging by its name, I thought that its a new haskell dilect ;)