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I see monad tutorial after monad tutorial posted here, but never some new, awesome piece of technology produced using Haskell. In fact, the only Haskell softwa
by haskellsceptic 11y ago
I see monad tutorial after monad tutorial posted here, but never some new, awesome piece of technology produced using Haskell.
In fact, the only Haskell software I can think of is Darcs, a DVCS that was so buggy and slow when I first started learning Haskell in 2010 that the community recommended against using it, and of course xmonad, dons' tiling window manager that he flagrantly abused his moderator status on r/programming to aggressively promote.
Yet Haskell remains one of the most popular languages here. There are more stories about it than Perl or C#. From this I can only conclude that Haskellers are all talk and no action, and IMO, this reflects very poorly on the language and its community.
EDIT: Also, the downvotes that one swiftly and copiously collects from merely criticizing Haskell and its community also reflect very poorly on both.
- SSLy 11y agopandoc, quickcheck and git-annex are the first things that came to mind.
- haskellsceptic 11y agoJudging by the volume of posts here about it, there should be as impressive a portfolio for it as there is for C# or Perl. There isn't.
- tome 11y agoMathematics is also a popular topic on HN but there isn't an impressive portfolio of projects written in that either. Pretty daming for mathematics.