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Writing kernel modules in Haskell

Posted Sep 16, 2009 2:37 UTC (Wed) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071)
In reply to: Writing kernel modules in Haskell by alankila
Parent article: Writing kernel modules in Haskell

(I'm watching myself turn into a Java enthusiast. Oh dear.)

I'm suffering the same pain. Built-in GUI toolkit (even if it's pretty dire), sane and complete libraries, native Unicode string class (do not mention std::wstring in my presence), no build system pain, solid built-in threading and concurrency ... I'm getting to like it.

I really miss RAII, though. It's not really possible in Java as there's no way to ensure a dtor fires reliably when an object exists scope, as with stack-based instances in C++. It's a real shame and a pain point for me, as working with program flow when exceptions are involved is excruciating without RAII. If I'm missing something and there's a reasonable way to do or approximate RAII in Java, please let me know...

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Writing kernel modules in Haskell

Posted Sep 17, 2009 6:10 UTC (Thu) by pynm0001 (subscriber, #18379) [Link]

Just like I wouldn't write C without one of glib or apr, I wouldn't write
C++ without Qt. Just as an aside, Qt has a built-in GUI toolkit (not dire,
btw), sane and complete libraries (although not as comprehensive as Java
I'd imagine), a native Unicode string class, minimal build system pain
(usually as easy as qmake -project && qmake && make), and solid built-in
threading and concurrency.

And you get RAII.