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> These bigger, more useful programs you can write with Haskell are pretty much unreadable though. This seems somewhat baseless. Unreadable according to whom?
by thinkpad20 8y ago
> These bigger, more useful programs you can write with Haskell are pretty much unreadable though.
This seems somewhat baseless. Unreadable according to whom? There are many large and complex programs written in Haskell by large teams of developers (open source or otherwise). It’s the nature of software in any language to become difficult to manage as the code base becomes large; I don’t think Haskell is an exceptional offender in this category.
> There is a reason everyone is not jumping into the functional programming bandwagon, despite mature languages being available for 30+ years.
There certainly are reasons for that, but not the ones you laid out.
- fooker 8y ago>There are many large and complex programs written in Haskell by large teams of developers (open source or otherwise). How many of those projects regularly attract new contributors, vs ..say.. something written in python or C++?