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Sounds a bit like a chicken and egg problem.
by austenallred 9y ago
Sounds a bit like a chicken and egg problem.
- jstimpfle 9y agoIt's not like the ecosystem is non-existent. At all. Only are most libraries really hard to use (IMHO), and they don't compose well (too many complicated types), have terrible compile times... The language might be elegant at the core, but it's too far removed from reality (efficiency on real computers is super hard to control from Haskell) and it's far too focused on types (which, while they catch some errors, slow development down, and encourage unnecessary complexity ("easier" and "more type-safe")). After all, it's an academic language.
- sanderjd 9y agoBut every language has that problem, and most mainstream languages overcome it. Why not Haskell? From an interested outsider's perspective, it seems like the community is focused more on ideas than on solutions. For me, this makes it endlessly intriguing (the ideas are interesting and often mind-bending) but not very useful (the solutions for the things I want to do appear under-developed).