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What makes you assume Haskell is somehow more niche than Clojure? I would say it depends on the domain. Haskell is certainly more mature (~30 years) and has a l
by willtim 9y ago
What makes you assume Haskell is somehow more niche than Clojure?
I would say it depends on the domain. Haskell is certainly more mature (~30 years) and has a lot more tutorials and literature.
- hnbroseph 9y ago> Haskell is certainly more mature (~30 years) and has a lot more tutorials and literature. and yet, still, nobody outside the gated community has any idea wtf a monad is. :(
- hellofunk 9y agoI was surprised to see Haskell in widespread use at several large enterprise companies in Singapore.
- willtim 9y agoYes 40+ fulltime Haskell devs in London and Singapore at Standard Chartered, with many other users writing Haskell.
- willtim 9y agoMany universities outside of the US teach functional programming and Haskell. The community is open, international and a healthy mix between industry and academia.
- james-mcelwain 9y agoI totally agree that it depends on domain, but I think that's part of the point -- making these comparisons, i.e. Clojure vs Haskell in the abstract aren't particularly interesting, as it seems obvious that no general purpose language is perfectly general for every purpose.
- ellyagg 9y agoIt runs on the Java runtime and interops seamlessly with Java which are two big factors in its favor.