Besides our web app and batch pdf generation procedures, i use haskell for internal one-off tasks.<br>Often i am being asked to import various data to database from text/excel files. Haskell is an excellent tool for this.<br><br><br>On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:30:28 PM UTC-7, Jonathan Geddes wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><div>I love Haskell. It is my absolute favorite language. But I have a very hard time finding places where I can actually use it!</div><div><br></div>I had hoped that compiling Haskell to C with -fvia-C (or would it be just -C?) would allow Haskell to run in new, uncharted territory such as Android (with NDK), IOS, Google's NaCl, etc. But today I learned that GHC's C backend has been deprecated! Is it more difficult than I am imagining to get Haskell to work in these environments? Is it simply a matter of low interest in this kind of work? Or something more fundamental? Am I missing something?<div>
<br></div><div>I'm hoping that the Haskell->JavaScript efforts will mature enough to make Haskell viable for client-side web apps. (I think the first sign of this will be a self-hosting Haskell->JavaScript compiler.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I use Haskell for Server-Side code with various web frameworks, but over the years more and more of the app logic is moved into client-side JavaScript, leaving the server-side code as little more than a simple validation and security layer over the database and other services. Haskell doesn't have any trouble with this, of course, but it's not exactly a role where it can shine. (Of course this is not true of ALL server-side code, just the kind of apps I have been writing.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>So anyway I'd like to request feedback: where can I use Haskell besides simple CLI utilities, dull server code, or project Euler problems? Even if it's just to contribute to getting Haskell in the environments mentioned above, any feedback is welcome!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for reading,</div><div><br></div><div>--J Arthur</div>
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