To ease your Haskell experience consider using LTS Haskell or Stackage to avoid Cabal hell:

https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/01/announcing-lts-haske... http://www.stackage.org/

Then you'll want to see also Cloud Haskell: http://haskell-distributed.github.io/

I'm not sure exactly what its current status is in terms of production-readiness but I believe it is still very active. The GitHub repos seem to be chugging along.

Thanks!

Not to bombard you with too much at once, but one interesting CloudHaskell-related extension that's landing in GHC 7.10 is Static Pointers: safe references to "static" code (constant values, functions, etc.) that can be passed between running instances of a program.

https://ocharles.org.uk/blog/guest-posts/2014-12-23-static-p...

Come along to http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/ if you like. We're quite friendly in there.