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Introduction

At DICOM Grid, we recently made the decision to use Haskell for some of our newer projects, mostly small, independent web services. This isn't the first time I've had the opportunity to use Haskell at work - I had previously used Haskell to write tools to automate some processes like generation of documentation for TypeScript code - but this is the first time we will be deploying Haskell code into production.

Over the past few months, I have been working on two Haskell services:

A reimplementation of an existing socket.io service, previously written for NodeJS using TypeScript.
A new service, which would interact with third-party components using standard data formats from the medical industry.

I will write here mostly about the first project, since it is a self-contained project which provides a good example of the power of Haskell. Moreover, the proces

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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High level style in javascript.

Opinions are like assholes, every one has got one.

This one is mine.

Punctuation: who cares?

Punctuation is a bikeshed. Put your semicolons, whitespace, and commas where you like them.

	13:15 <xQuasar> \| HASKELL IS FOR FUCKIN FAGGOTS. YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF
	\| FUCKIN PUSSIES
	13:15 <xQuasar> \| JAVASCRIPT FOR LIFE FAGS
	13:16 <luite> \| hello
	13:16 <ChongLi> \| somebody has a mental illness!
	13:16 <merijn> \| Wow...I suddenly see the error of my ways and feel
	\| compelled to write Node.js!
	13:16 <genisage> \| hi
	13:16 <luite> \| you might be pleased to learn that you can compile
	\| haskell to javascript now

	/* http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
	v2.0 \| 20110126
	License: none (public domain) */

	html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
	h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
	a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
	del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
	small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
	b, u, i, center,