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Yep, same here coming from OCaml. MLs seem a lot more conservative with their standard libraries. Actually, with OCaml there have been a ton of attempts at maki
by nv-vn 11y ago
Yep, same here coming from OCaml. MLs seem a lot more conservative with their standard libraries. Actually, with OCaml there have been a ton of attempts at making the standard library larger (Extlib, Batteries, Containers, Core, etc.) which is pretty much the opposite of what people are doing with Haskell. I always end up midsing Prelude when I'm working in OCaml, so it feels weird to me that people would want to strip it down so much.
- JadeNB 11y agoI think the prevalence of articles like this one, about what's wrong with the Prelude, are exactly the reason for the impulse not to have such a big stdlib. If Haskell's were more modularised, then there wouldn't be this perpetual dissatisfaction with it (although, of course, there might be different dissatisfactions); you could just slice'n'dice it into the shape you wanted.