What does HackerNews think of amazonka?

https://github.com/brendanhay/amazonka

I use the package directly from GitHub in my project.

I use

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/optparse-applicative for small cli apps

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/envparse For any Docker microservice

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/aeson-1.4.5.0/docs/Data-A... For all JSON work. Sometimes I’ll use it with lenses which is massively powerful but a rabbit hole

I’ll use http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stm when dealing with parallel execution

https://github.com/brendanhay/amazonka For anything dealing with AWS

https://github.com/haskell-works?tab=repositories Projects for Kafka and avro

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/warp For trivial micro services or Scotty if more than a few endpoints

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/persistent For dealing with Postgres

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec For dealing with any text parsing.

The tools are available, they can make things like cli apps and micro services trivial. However if you have never used a ML language before you will have a steep learning curve as very different to C style/based languages.

I was once of the opinion Haskell is academic, what can you use it for in the real world. Then I studied with it, played with it admittedly on and off over 1-2 years, hit hurdles where I had to think as so different to what I’ve learnt before. Eventually it clicked, it’s very hard and frustrating now in my day job using typical enterprise or popular languages. It’s not about convincing, it’s about having a open mind and wanting to learn something different