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Yesod is awesome I can't see myself going back to less typesafe database schema tools. The choice I made seemed like a safer path, perhaps not ideal.

The application that I am trying to put together is a realtime websockets application. Therefore, I am using yesod/websockets for the server. For the client, I chose haxe simply because of the targets available making it simpler to write plugins.

On one of my irc chats or somewhere, I did hear good things about haste, though it is primarily a javascript library, therefore I plan to evaluate it later.

About the client: it is a single page app to prevent any page refreshes and I am a bit sold on the frp (using promHx). I guess I should have elaborated a bit more about this in my earlier comment, because my choices are not indicative of anything amiss in yesod.

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Have you looked at Elm[1]? Is that "too much web" and too far from Haskell for you?

https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-platform#elm-platform

Elm was my first choice for a different side project. I went away because then elm did not have, or it was my lack of knowledge,support for crud widgets. I miss the elm signal approach in haxe for one thing. Here is the link to my repo so things are a bit concrete https://github.com/asm-products/ccar-websockets.git . Warning: this is still work in progress and there are way too many issues before I can even release this. The elm repo is here: https://github.com/dservgun/elm_projects .

Edit: added some repos to set a context. The original comment about 4th attempt hit home as the latest repo is my 4th(I am going to quickly lose count) attempt to achieve at a model that might work/scale. There are still some issues that I would like to solve: whether to use code generators or not. Code gens will save me some typing, but I found myself tweaking printfs or equivalents to fit it into a narrow model.

Edit II: Elm, iirc, is being supported by prezi that also happens to be using haxe quite actively. So I felt a bit more reassured about using haxe.

Have you tried using Purescript for frontend stuff? There is apparently a purescript-websocket library:

https://github.com/tekerson/purescript-websocket

I will have to take a look if fponticelli: https://twitter.com/jdegoes/status/471319014614892544 , thinks it is. My app is not a pure web app, it has some client components such as excel plugins that need to talk to the server. I was therefore looking for something that I can port to other targets with some support from the language, which is where imo haxe/nekovm seem to shine. Yes, there may be some parts missing from haxe, though, it seemed to work ok for my needs and if its good for salesforce or tivo, I thought I may not be a trailblazer afterall.

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