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I've been writing Haskell professionally full-time since 2010. Before I started pursuing Haskell I looked into Scala, but it seems to be trying to embrace too
by mightybyte 10y ago
I've been writing Haskell professionally full-time since 2010. Before I started pursuing Haskell I looked into Scala, but it seems to be trying to embrace too many paradigms, which has resulted in a gigantic unwieldy language. In the 6 years that I've been using it professionally the Haskell ecosystem has matured tremendously. Obviously the third party library support can't be as good as popular languages like Ruby, Python, etc simply because of manpower, but I find that these days there is an open source package for just about everything I need. Furthermore, due to Haskell's purity and strong type system it is MUCH more likely that these libraries will work. It is also usually quite easy to make improvements when needed.