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title: Hakyll
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date: 2013-10-19
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I decided to check out [Hakyll](http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll). It is a static
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site generator written in [Haskell](http://haskell.org). It seems to be very
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flexible. It allows me to write the content in a boat load of different formats
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(`.html`, `.rst`, `.markdown`, …).
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## Static sites
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I don't feel I have a need for dynamic content at the moment. And if I do need
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dynamic content, I can make a *web app* for it and configure *nginx*
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appropriately. For example, if you click on the picture of [Mario](/) you should
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hear a sound. This uses websockets - all visitors should hear the same sound at
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(approximately) the same time.
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I find static site generators appealing. They can help with the tedious parts of
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creating a web site - Creating indices, templating, balancing start- and end
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tags, and so on.
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## Haskell
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Haskell is a *pure, lazily evaluated, functional programming language*. I have
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some prior experience with Haskell, but I have never been a big fan of the
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language. I think it's partly because I never really started using Haskell for
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anything but toy programs.
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I like Hakyll so far.
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