> I don't think Java is a meaningful competitor. Just curious... what would you consider a meaningful competitor to Haskell? Just to lay my own cards on the t

> I don't think Java is a meaningful competitor. Just curious... what would you consider a meaningful competitor to Haskell? Just to lay my own cards on the table: I'd prefer Haskell to almost all other languages if we were only talking about the language (well, the GHC dialect). I do use Haskell quite a bit, but unfortunately I also have to do quite a lot of work in the "enterprise" space where ridiculous things like being able to read e.g. Excel spreadsheets is a big deal. (That is, one cannot rely on people sending those spreadsheets over email to convert to CSV in any meaningful way, so...)