Next time someone says to me that language's popularity doesn't matter for it's utility, I'll remember how Go's socks library appears on the front page of HN, w

Next time someone says to me that language's popularity doesn't matter for it's utility, I'll remember how Go's socks library appears on the front page of HN, while my pull request the Haskell's socks library (which implements the most basic feature that author added to the top of TODO list himself) is sitting unmerged and uncommented now for almost a year.(1) (If I sound bitter it's because I am.) Seriously though, such "boring" libraries that you just need in your toolbox are a great way to evaluate the health of the whole ecosystem. [1][https://github.com/vincenthz/hs-socks/pull/24 https://github.com/vincenthz/hs-socks/pull/24]