Haskell's advantages (and disadvantages) as a Web Framework are generally the sa...

zura · on Oct 31, 2011

While I agree regarding correctness and concurrency, I wouldn't emphasize performance, even for Java and .NET, whose GCs are more developed, tuned and tested in the production environment than Haskell's one.

Edit: And for Haskell, achieving needed performance can be quite tricky with regard to its laziness.

danieldk · on Oct 31, 2011

Edit: And for Haskell, achieving needed performance can be quite tricky with regard to its laziness.

But Snap is driven by enumerators/iteratees (via the enumerator package), which make it much easier to do fast near-constant space IO.

I have built a web application that uses Snap to query large (parse) treebanks, and it was easy to make it performant.

jamesbritt · on Oct 31, 2011

There was some discussion on HN about the Snap Web framework benchmarks relative to some other frameworks: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1380405

No .Net in there, though.