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> I think that Haskell is a great language to prototype pure business logic because of the type system and focus on purity, but it has several warts, because ha
by _query 6y ago
> I think that Haskell is a great language to prototype pure business logic because of the type system and focus on purity, but it has several warts, because haskellers focus more on language research than DX.
This is very true. We recently started https://github.com/digitallyinduced/haskell-ux https://github.com/digitallyinduced/haskell-ux to keep track of haskell DX improvements. Some of our suggestions are already issues on the GHC (haskell compiler) bug tracker.
Here's an example of a great UX improvement in GHC: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/4711 https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/4711
- ludamad 6y agoGood to see that the article is at least underselling that people are actively working on this