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"Packages exist for doing this" isn't the same thing as "this is a good ecosystem for doing this kind of work" though. I'm fairly convinced that Haskell is goo
by pytester 7y ago
"Packages exist for doing this" isn't the same thing as "this is a good ecosystem for doing this kind of work" though.
I'm fairly convinced that Haskell is good at preventing the kinds of bugs which you might run into writing, say, a parser or other kinds of very complex logical code, but I'm less convinced that the nature of the language helps with the kinds of issues you get hooking together APIs, databases, etc.
- marcosdumay 7y agoNearly all of those packages are best in kind, and most actually in a different league from anything that you'll get in another language.
- coldtea 7y agoYou assert this, but the parent asked for it to be shown...
- marcosdumay 7y ago> show me what I need to know to do what I do That's the only one occurrence I can find. I think the GGP made a good job of answering that. I'm not going to walk over the differences as each of those would be a many hours task just for explaining.