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>GHC honcho Simon-Peyton Jones saying the next Haskell will be strict, I think all he meant that strictness was an interesting paradigm that would differentiat
by vmchale 9y ago
>GHC honcho Simon-Peyton Jones saying the next Haskell will be strict,
I think all he meant that strictness was an interesting paradigm that would differentiate a language enough to justify its existence alongside Haskell.
>Following on and presumably related to that PureScript is strict
Partly also to distinguish from GHCJS. Laziness in a strict language is really hard and PureScript generates semi-readable JavaScript.