> Alright, I'll give you that there are a ton of GHC extensions after getting a list of them, all 106 as of GHC 7.10[0]. This does make me wonder why having s

> Alright, I'll give you that there are a ton of GHC extensions after getting a list of them, all 106 as of GHC 7.10[0]. This does make me wonder why having so many extensions was never an issue for me. > The Haskell community really got its shit together over the last 3 years. Cabal got a lot better, a bunch of key libraries got good, our compiler is fixed some major bugs Agreed. > I love Haskell, I really do. I wish I could ship more code with Haskell, and like it as well. But the OP asked about why Haskell didn't take off. Its ecosystem was in what we might call a state of growth and flux at the time a lot of stream and batch computation systems were shipping. Fair enough. > Oh and uh, I think Haskell's community is full of some truly toxic people, an intersection of some of the ugliest and most arrogant personalities of the Scala world who's primary education strategy can only be called "negging." I've seen this personality type in other languages, but not Haskell yet. I too abhor the "negging" type, as well as the subculture that term arose from. 0: all ghc extensions OverlappingInstances UndecidableInstances IncoherentInstances DoRec RecursiveDo ParallelListComp MultiParamTypeClasses MonomorphismRestriction FunctionalDependencies Rank2Types RankNTypes PolymorphicComponents ExistentialQuantification ScopedTypeVariables PatternSignatures ImplicitParams FlexibleContexts FlexibleInstances EmptyDataDecls CPP KindSignatures BangPatterns TypeSynonymInstances TemplateHaskell ForeignFunctionInterface Arrows Generics ImplicitPrelude NamedFieldPuns PatternGuards GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving ExtensibleRecords RestrictedTypeSynonyms HereDocuments MagicHash TypeFamilies StandaloneDeriving UnicodeSyntax UnliftedFFITypes InterruptibleFFI CApiFFI LiberalTypeSynonyms TypeOperators RecordWildCards RecordPuns (Deprecated, use NamedFieldPuns instead) DisambiguateRecordFields TraditionalRecordSyntax OverloadedStrings GADTs GADTSyntax MonoPatBinds RelaxedPolyRec ExtendedDefaultRules UnboxedTuples DeriveDataTypeable DeriveGeneric DefaultSignatures InstanceSigs ConstrainedClassMethods PackageImports ImpredicativeTypes (deprecated) NewQualifiedOperators (deprecated) PostfixOperators QuasiQuotes TransformListComp MonadComprehensions ViewPatterns XmlSyntax RegularPatterns TupleSections GHCForeignImportPrim NPlusKPatterns DoAndIfThenElse MultiWayIf LambdaCase RebindableSyntax ExplicitForAll DatatypeContexts MonoLocalBinds DeriveFunctor DeriveTraversable DeriveFoldable NondecreasingIndentation SafeImports Safe Trustworthy Unsafe ConstraintKinds PolyKinds DataKinds ParallelArrays RoleAnnotations OverloadedLists EmptyCase AutoDeriveTypeable NegativeLiterals BinaryLiterals NumDecimals NullaryTypeClasses ExplicitNamespaces AllowAmbiguousTypes JavaScriptFFI PatternSynonyms PartialTypeSignatures NamedWildCards DeriveAnyClass