On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Creighton Hogg wrote:
2009/1/9 John A. De Goes <[email protected]>:
If you're looking for a project to take on, I would suggest
starting with
the following:
A high-level, type-safe AMQP client written in 100% Haskell, which
provides
a clean way of handling hundreds of unique message types.
Then it would be possible to hook it up to any AMQP broker (most
likely
RabbitMQ). There are logical steps beyond the above (an embedded
Haskell
broker), but the above project is far from trivial. And the main
undertaking, I think, consists not in coding to the spec (for which
there is
some help; a JSON representation of the AMQP specification can be
processed
and used to emit language-specific code), but in finding a design
that works
well in Haskell.
<snip & reorder>
I apologize, but my question was geared more towards understanding
what high-level OTP-like libraries Haskell is lacking, not full blown
applications that haven't been written in Haskell. It sounded like
you had some specific insight into this.
A Haskell AMQP client is not an application, but a library that
Haskell applications would use (if it existed). The use of the word
"client" refers to the client/server metaphor used in centralized
message broker systems like AMQP.
Regarding the OTP specifically, Haskell doesn't have anything like it.
Haskell has bits and pieces, but they're not integrated in a single
stack, and much functionality is missing. For example, there's no way
to dynamically poke running Haskell code, to see what it's doing; no
way to update code on the fly as a process is running; no scalable
distributed database system; etc.
Regards,
John
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