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Spelling corrections, noted as I read:

"point of vue" -> point of view

"shell command are executed" -> "shell commands are executed"

"benchmark are here" -> "the benchmarks are here"

Also, heroku works just fine with haskell, as long as you compile a static binary on an ubuntu machine. I compile mine on virtual box (via way of vagrant), and have 3 haskell apps (none of them really production ready though) running on heroku right now.

Lastly, I don't really think haskell is the right language for a lot of web programming. In haskell, you really want your logic to be as purely functional as possible, but that gets pretty hard to do for web apps that rely on external apis.

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Thanks! Spell errors corrected!

When I said there is no heroku for Haskell it because it is not official. Furthermore, do you have to use a 64bit architecture when compiling (just curious)? I might try it myself.

And I even think that the argument against the number of Haskellers is in fact a force instead of a drawback. It filter passionate people.

By external APIs, you mean that it would be difficult to write a simple "connect to twitter/facebook" application? Could you tell us about any bad experience you had?

Yeah, 64bit.

I never said anything about number of people...

External apis: nearly all the logic in my app leads to either talking to the db, or calling an http api (and haskell can't use https apis that well, you have to use its bindings to libcurl). In general, it feels extremely difficult to pull my logic out of IO (but maybe I'm just too dumb to).

It's not that its particularly difficult, it's just that it's not a problem I think haskell is well suited to solve. I've used haskell to teach my self automated logic proofs (just resolution refutation), compression algorithms (huffman encoding and lz77), typechecking and breaking encryption (enigma). Every time university exams roll around, I learning them on paper. It's by far and away the best language I've used for stuff like that. It feels like web-apps with lots of IO aren't really a problem haskell is well suited to solve.

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