The difficulty of reasoning about strictness and memory consumption in Haskell is by far its biggest flaw. This is why I stopped writing Haskell: even if you un

The difficulty of reasoning about strictness and memory consumption in Haskell is by far its biggest flaw. This is why I stopped writing Haskell: even if you understand your own code perfectly, you can't tell how well-behaved it will be without reading your dependencies and all their dependencies. And yet strictness typing seems to be on nobody's plan for future Haskell extensions.