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I think this basically nails the attitude of every single go convert that I have spoken to. I am starting to get tired of hearing lines like "that lisp stuff is too complicated, I am a go programmer" or "why would you do x in y way, it's so much better in go".

I don't think I have ever seen such unrelenting fanboyism in a programming language. It very well may be a fantastic language but its not an end all be all, we would do well to remember that.

Thanks a ton! Combined with the recent peepcode, I think im good to go!

Seriously?

Hey everyone! Eavesdrop dev here; we built this for NodeKO and decided to keep it going.

I think they might be. Bryan O'Sullivan has been working for them for some time now.

Dont let this discourage you from trying Yesod. The Yesod team has made it really really easy to install a core of isolated packages for the framework. The problem comes from trying to upgrade. I know that sounds insane(and it is), but you should try it out, it has quite a lot to offer.

The problem with packages and Haskell is well known; there are a few camps currently trying to solve the issue. Personally, (although the author went about things in a rather roundabout way) I can feel for the author. I LOVE Haskell, I cannot think of a better language for prototyping crazy ideas in and I work in it every chance that I get; that being said, its awful to get up and running with cabal. The suggestion which has been posed to me is "simply use cabal-dev", when I do this, I wind up with crazy huge project files because of repeat installs. I sincerely hope that someone much smarter than myself can come up with a solution for this; I think it is a primary reason why Haskell is not being more widely adopted.

References(for those who are interested) http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/04/replacing-cabal http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/03/cabal-nirvana

Hopefully the guys at FP complete will redirect some of their focus onto this (please oh please). http://fpcomplete.com/

I cannot second this enough. Pandoc Markdown has some nice little tidbits, oddly contrasting to the above, the table syntaxes(yes there are more than one) are pretty darn useful.

Congratulations! I have been working with Yesod off and on for about 6 months now. It is truly fantastic; I am actually transitioning off of Django in favor of Yesod. Type safety and conduits for the win.

That's how it came across to me as well after I looked through the rest of his blog.

Thanks for the info, I'll stop by on Wednesday if I can, I live 2 blocks away.

how much interest have you been seeing? I have absolutely no idea as to the size of Reno's hacker community even though I live here.

I'd agree with that sentiment. The author goes too far to say that people are getting "hoodwinked". There are doers and dreamers, sometimes the dreamers become the doers with a bit of a push. That's not to say that it happens to everyone, but its safe to say that it could.