[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] First Public Release of the Snap Framework

[Chris Eidhof]

Awesome! Congratulations on the first release, I look forward to working with it. Also, the web design is great, possibly the best designed Haskell library website I've seen so far.

-chris

On 22 mei 2010, at 07:25, Gregory Collins wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> To coincide with Hac Phi 2010
> (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac_%CF%86), the Snap team is happy
> to announce the first public release of the Snap Framework, a simple and
> fast Haskell web programming server and library for unix systems. For
> installation instructions, documentation, and more information, see our
> website at http://snapframework.com/.
> 
> Snap is well-documented and has a test suite with a high level of code
> coverage, but it is early-stage software with still-evolving interfaces. Snap
> is therefore most likely to be of interest to early adopters and potential
> contributors.
> 
> Snap is BSD-licensed and currently only runs on Unix platforms; it has been
> developed and tested on Linux and Mac OSX Snow Leopard.
> 
> Snap Features:
> 
> * A simple and clean monad for web programming, similar to happstack's but
>   simpler.
> 
> * A *fast* HTTP server library with an optional high-concurrency backend
>   (using libev).
> 
> * An XML-based templating system for generating xhtml that allows you to bind
>   Haskell functionality to XML tags in your templates.
> 
> * Some useful utilities for web handlers, including gzip compression and
>   fileServe.
> 
> * Iteratee-based I/O, allowing composable streaming in O(1) space without any
>   of the unpredictable consequences of lazy I/O.
> 
> If you have questions or comments, please contact us on our mailing list
> (http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/snap) or in the
> #snapframework channel on the freenode IRC network.
> 
> Cheers,
> G
> -- 
> Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
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