Haskell is significantly less popular than some other languages, but it has a non-trivial amount of people using it in serious applications in industry (e.g., a

Haskell is significantly less popular than some other languages, but it has a non-trivial amount of people using it in serious applications in industry (e.g., a large part of Facebook’s spam filtering system is written in Haskell [1]), as well as for some reasonably popular open source projects like Pandoc. Furthermore, Haskell has a rich ecosystem of open source libraries on Hackage. How does this not qualify it as a language with practical applications? Frankly, your comment comes across as being based upon hearsay, instead of actual experience with the language and its community. You’re right that Haskell is not as popular as more mainstream languages, but that does not make it similar to Brainfuck. [1] https://engineering.fb.com/security/fighting-spam-with-haskell/ https://engineering.fb.com/security/fighting-spam-with-haske...