[gtf21]

> - how easy is it to make a web application with a hello world endpoint?

If that's all you want it to do, it's very easy with Wai/Warp.

> - How easy is it to auth a JWT?

We don't use JWTs, but we did look at it and Servant (which is a library for building HTTP APIs) has built in functionality for them.

> - Is there a good ORM that supports migrations?

There are several with quite interesting properties. Some (like persistent) do automatic migrations based on your schema definitions. Others you have to write migration SQL/other DSL.

> - Do I have to remodel half my type system because a product owner told me about this weird business logic edge case we have to deal with?

I think that's going to really depend on how you have structured your domain model, it's not a language question as much as a design question.

> - How do I do logging?

We use a library called Katip for logging, but there are others which are simpler. You can also just print to stdout if you want to.

[robertlagrant]

Thank you! What I was more saying was that an article like this would do better showing some practical simple examples, that would let people do things, rather than bemoaning how Haskell is viewed in 2024.

[gtf21]

Oh! I hope I wasn't bemoaning too much -- that was the lead-in, but it's mostly about what I really like about the language (and had some examples but I also didn't want to write a tutorial).

[gtf21]

For reference (in case it's helpful), my website (where this essay is hosted) is written in Haskell and is basically a fairly simple webserver.

For the "hello world" webserver, this might be a bit instructive: https://github.com/gfarrell/gtf.io/blob/main/src/GTF/Router....