Brooks defines a "silver bullet" as a single technology or tool which yields a 10 times increase in productivity across the board. In other words, a "silver bul

Brooks defines a "silver bullet" as a single technology or tool which yields a 10 times increase in productivity across the board. In other words, a "silver bullet" have to eliminate 90% of all the work a developer does during a workday. But a typical developer is not even coding half of the time! They are discussing with the product owner to clarify requirements, reading specifications, writing specifications, thinking, surfing Jira etc. A lot the work of a developer is to take vague requirements and transform them into unambiguous language. These are effects of the inherent complexity of software development. And then we have stuff like researching and evaluating what framework or library is the best fit for a given task. Haskell is cool and all, but it will not eliminate 90% of what a developer does in a day. No single programming language, however perfect, will.