abscissa

Application microframework with command-line option parsing, configuration, error handling, logging, and shell interactions

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Application microframework with command-line option parsing, configuration, error handling, logging, and shell interactions

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May 2020	2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Jun 2020	2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 2020	2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Aug 2020	2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 2020	2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 2020	2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 2020	2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 2020	2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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jzelinskie·Jan 26, 2021

If you haven't seen it, I'll give a shoutout to abscissa[0]. It's used in production by quite a few apps, basically had everything I was looking for, and demonstrated thought towards why dependencies they have chosen and what those dependencies transitively include. [0]: https://github.com/iqlusioninc/abscissa

In Show HN: Rust-starter, a boilerplate to build Rust CLI applications

dmix·May 30, 2020

One of the best ways to get adoption is to have people take initial risks and build real world serious product with a serious team/company backing behind it. Erlang got a big boost when it came out WhatsApp scaled it up with a billion users, with tiny team and only a few servers. React/React Native got boosted by Instagram adopting it to build their production mobile app. Rails had 37signals/Basecamp and Github/Shopify/early Twitter/etc. Haskell needs some more famous commercial "killer-app" examples for real businesses and real teams. And yes I'm very familiar with the current selection of popular Haskell examples. Currently I only ever hear Haskell (and Ocaml for that matter) being used by engineers for backend engineery things (parsing programming languages, fighting spam, tooling) mostly for OSS tools. On a positive note, PureScript i

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s trying to position itself as a practical Haskell and making a bit of success. One helpful reason is they have a nice app/company leading the way as a production app with Lumi [1], with their founder playing a key role on the language/ecosystem dev side as well: https://www.lumi.dev/blog/purescript-and-haskell-at-lumi This is what Haskell needs more of - and critical a company promoting/blogging about their progress using Haskell as well as contributing back into the community. Another big one is simply a sort of 'starter kit' which guides you with best practices on how to architect a serious Haskell app (ie, using STM, free, etc). React has plenty of starter kits. For Rust CLI apps there is a great starter kit https://github.com/iqlusioninc/abscissa I'd love to see a similar starting point micro-framework for starting a new Haskell app that makes a bunch of importation decisions for you and guides the structure of the project.

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