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> It's the reason why one of the biggest users of Haskell (and the most notable example of Haskell in industry), Standard Chartered, uses their own Haskell comp

by tome 9y ago

> It's the reason why one of the biggest users of Haskell (and the most notable example of Haskell in industry), Standard Chartered, uses their own Haskell compiler that's strict by default. No it's not. The reason Mu is strict is that it was designed to target an existing strict runtime.

yawaramin 9y ago
That begs the question: why target Haskell to an existing strict runtime instead of using Haskell's own delayed evaluation runtime?
- dllthomas 9y ago
  I always understood it to be for interoperability with existing software targeting that runtime, but I'm not sure that was more than assumption.
  - tome 9y ago
    That is correct.