# Yesod (and Haskell) from a Drupal (and PHP) Perspective

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**Created:** [August 22, 2026, 11:32pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/yesod-and-haskell-from-a-drupal-and-php-perspective/14602 "2026-08-22T23:32:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![barisbaris2005](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/barisbaris2005/32/5714_2.png) [@barisbaris2005](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/barisbaris2005)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 11:32pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/yesod-and-haskell-from-a-drupal-and-php-perspective/14602/1 "2026-08-22T23:32:27Z")

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> **[Yesod (and Haskell) from a Drupal (and PHP) Perspective](https://www.gizra.com/content/haskell-yesod-php-drupal/)**
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> Should you use Yesod or Drupal? You can actually enjoy both worlds.

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**Author:** ![bmobn00b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bmobn00b](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/bmobn00b)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 5:26am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/yesod-and-haskell-from-a-drupal-and-php-perspective/14602/2 "2026-08-23T05:26:00Z")

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> September 22, 2016

Almost 10 years ago 😂

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**Author:** ![barisbaris2005](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/barisbaris2005/32/5714_2.png) [@barisbaris2005](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/barisbaris2005)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 5:58am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/yesod-and-haskell-from-a-drupal-and-php-perspective/14602/3 "2026-08-23T05:58:47Z")

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a nostalgic link from an old man 🙂

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**Author:** ![pranaysashank](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/pranaysashank/32/1682_2.png) [@pranaysashank](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/pranaysashank)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/yesod-and-haskell-from-a-drupal-and-php-perspective/14602/4 "2026-08-23T08:05:27Z")

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The article makes a crucial error in the `Monoid` section:

> For completeness - the second and the last rule for a Monoid is that `mappend x y` should be equal to `mappend y x` (5 + 6 == 6 + 5).

The rule instead is that `mappend` has to be `associative`, no requirement on `commutativity`

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**Author:** ![harryprayiv](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/harryprayiv/32/3680_2.png) [@harryprayiv](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/harryprayiv)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/yesod-and-haskell-from-a-drupal-and-php-perspective/14602/5 "2026-08-23T18:54:57Z")

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Story time:

I started my journey programming microcontrollers. I liked C++ until I reached the pointers part. The spaghetti code I had to write was too clunky to manage. I built a state machine and stuff (a dmx controller) but never really got further. Always felt like I was missing an abstraction layer.

Then, I graduated art school and tried to build a personal website (that was simply capable of detecting the browser that was viewing it) in joomla only to be disgusted by it and switch to Drupal which also eventually disgusted me enough for me to switch to attempting what I wanted to do in swift with an actual app 🤦🏻‍♂️.

Then, swift hipster tutorials started to get me into FRP and I didn’t know enough to know that FP is not FRP. So I begrudgingly learned category theory by listening to podcast after podcast driving to work until I somehow soaked the info in without realizing it. Then, I tried to do FP in Python using Coconut until that also disgusted me enough. Then, I stepped away from the computer (except as a Linux sysadmin) and studied programming as an intellectual exercise rather than a practical one in my off-time for years. Then I stumbled upon Cardano, then Nix and Haskell from that. Haskell (and Nix) were the first technologies I learned that finally didn’t disgust me (as hard as I tried to uncover the ugly bits). To this day, I still haven’t gotten around to that personal website. But 20 years later, I’m glad that Drupal’s (and by extension php’s) inadequacy steered me here.