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An ad-hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Haskell

• jnbiche 11y ago
  So any new functional language with static types is now a bug-ridden, half implementation of Haskell? Wow, that's arrogance. Haskell was one of this language's three named influences (along with Lisp and Go). Anyway, very cool project. I look forward to trying it out.
  • teamhappy 11y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule Edit: I'm assuming he's joking
    • jnbiche 11y ago
      Yeah, I'm aware of what's he's riffing off (note that Greenspun's had nothing to do with Haskell). It's still an annoying attitude to have toward any new functional language that happens to share a syntax with Haskell. Is that the gp's attitude toward PureScript, for example? Or Idris? If that's the case, it must be nice/"interesting"/boring having found a "forever language". Look forward to seeing how that's going for him in 2030.
• jjbiotech 11y ago
  Brief, critical, and decisively vague critique of new technology. Not that I disagree, but I feel the HN comment section has become very predictable.
  • steego 11y ago
    I usually come here to defend the language designer, but I think this particular submission is worthy of brief, critical and vague criticism because there's not a lot to criticize. The user guide and language reference is very thin and it's missing the two critically distinctive features of Go, namely goroutines and channels. It's a nice idea, but there's not a lot here to talk about.
• atrudeau 11y ago
  Half of Haskell is a lot!
• dang 11y ago
  Please don't post snarky dismissals of new work to HN. Substantive criticism is fine.
  • zelcon5 11y ago
    How is this _not_ exactly what I said it was though? The author even says in the readme that it's a NIH version of Haskell. I love PL mental masturbation as much as anyone else, but stuff like this is equivalent to an oil spill in a freshwater lake with 20 endangered species.
    • dang 11y ago
      The problem is the genre of the snarky dismissal. Perhaps there was a solid point behind what you said, but you didn't express it that way. It's a tragedy of the commons. Posting such coments never feels harmful, but once they get above a certain level the whole community becomes filled with toxic fumes. This threshold is lower than it seems—the damage isn't only in the fumes your comment gives off, but in the encouragement it gives others to do the same. Tragedy of the commons plus broken windows theory is not an auspicious combination, so we try to be proactive about asking people not to do this.
• nine_k 11y ago
  An important difference: it did not self-germinate, it is a fruit of a conscious effort.