[eru]

In the context of noname123's post they bring interesting learning to the table: they are not more of the same with renamed keywords. To quote,

> [...] it's not like learning music and digging into a deeper discipline like moving from acoustic strumming to jazz improvisation, it's just learning new keywords to do the same crap because the old keywords have been remapped.

Haskell _is_ digging deeper into the discipline.

I am sure one can make good arguments for some of the Haskell and Clojure frameworks for web applications. Alas, I am not qualified. I only used Haskell professionally for embedded development, and for rapid desktop application development, but I've never done web development seriously.

In any case, the Haskell answer for web development will probably include what all Haskell advocacy ever includes: purity and the strong static typing.

[chrisdew]

How do you Haskell on embedded systems? Are you talking about baremetal with 1-32K SRAM?

[sanderjd]

To take this thread yet further into self-parody, you might like Rust; it borrows some interesting stuff from Haskell (or really, the ML family), but is actively targeting embedded systems.

Edit: Also, I have heard that Ocaml can be made to work pretty nicely in an embedded environment.

[eru]

You can make OCaml (and Haskell) run on Xen, no need for a full blown operating system. (Not sure if that counts for anything.) The OCaml project for that is called mirage.

[eru]

No, not nearly that baremetal. I was talking about control processes running in dom0 of xen. They are embedded in the sense that there are `no user serviceable parts'.

(I just looked up embedded software on Wikipedia; it seems like the traditional use of the term is very different to how I used it here. Please pardon the confusion.)