> The problem is that creating industry friendly libraries is apparently not a goal that the Haskell community has. I don't think that's a fair take. Haskell s

> The problem is that creating industry friendly libraries is apparently not a goal that the Haskell community has. I don't think that's a fair take. Haskell started as a research language, and it's only in the 2010s really that it started taking off and becoming more and more practical. That's because people invested lots of effort in libraries like lens (and many others). Haskell didn't even have a strong build system until Stack popped up in the mid-2010s. Frankly these were bigger priorities. These things had to be solved first in order to transition Haskell from a research experiment in lazy evaluation into a real-world tool. In 2020, outside of maybe dependent types, the community is probably more concerned with practicality and pragmatism than ever before. There's a huge focus right now on improved IDE support, for instance.