The fact that Haskell is a good industrial strength language is a byproduct of its quest for language design excellence. Avoid success at all cost, implies an

The fact that Haskell is a good industrial strength language is a byproduct of its quest for language design excellence. Avoid success at all cost, implies an unwillingness to sacrifice on design to please corporate needs. I don't think it's a "meme", there really is a focus on research over being production ready. Monads, Arrows, Dependent Types - Haskell is where a lot language research happens (and the language chosen by a lot of researchers). Sure, you can ship Haskell in production if you're happy to fill in the gaps. I did some of that for a non-Haskell company and it wasn't as easy to deploy apps written in other languages and community-provided solutions for logging / monitoring were lacking. That said, I'm always happy to hear about people using Haskell in production and wish you the best