I agree, I think the diagram on page 12(?) of http://dev.stephendiehl.com/nearfuture.pdf http://dev.stephendiehl.com/nearfuture.pdf sums it up nicely. If you t

I agree, I think the diagram on page 12(?) of http://dev.stephendiehl.com/nearfuture.pdf http://dev.stephendiehl.com/nearfuture.pdf sums it up nicely. If you think this is smugness, look into it. The features that come up with GHC extensions have no equivalent in other languages, because the commonly used stuff in Haskell so far ahead.