Lots of fun, thanks ;)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Jeremy Shaw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy@n-heptane.com">jeremy@n-heptane.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello,<div><br></div><div>I've been thinking a lot recently about the direction and future of the Happstack project. </div><div><br></div><div>These days we hear a lot about technologies to allow servers to push data, such as Comet, Ajax Push, Reverse Ajax, Two-way-web, HTTP Streaming, and HTTP server push among others. HTML 5 includes something called 'Web Sockets'. In short, it seems that the 'stateless' web model is a complete failure. People want sockets!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Furthermore, the big sites of the day are 'social media' sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Four Square, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Well, it's clear to me where the industry is headed, and I think this is a great chance for Haskell to be the leader. </div>
<div><br></div><div> persistent connection + social web site == BBS</div><div><br></div><div>That's right! The return of the BBS is upon us. So, without further ado, I would like to announce the happstack-bbs project:</div>
<div><br></div><div>darcs get <a href="http://src.seereason.com/happstack-bbs/" target="_blank">http://src.seereason.com/happstack-bbs/</a></div><div><br></div><div>You can connect right now to the world's newest Haskell BBS. Simple open a terminal which supports ansi & utf-8, and run:</div>
<div><br></div><div>telnet <a href="http://hacketeria.com" target="_blank">hacketeria.com</a> 2525</div><div><br></div><div>Patches welcome (and sorely needed!)</div><div><br></div><div> - jeremy</div>
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