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Pandoc is fine, but it is literally the most popular OSS Haskell project, and it’s a super obscure document converter. The most popular OSS projects in Go are D
by earthboundkid 6y ago
Pandoc is fine, but it is literally the most popular OSS Haskell project, and it’s a super obscure document converter. The most popular OSS projects in Go are Docker and Kubernetes (maybe a strike against Go? Lol) and Rust has this thing called “Firefox”. Haskell has been around for twenty years and by any objective measure has made almost no direct impact on OSS. It’s a thing programmers do for fun on the weekend instead of Sudoku. It had some influence on Rust and Swift, but all of the software written in Haskell could disappear tomorrow and no one would notice.
- illegalsmile 6y agoany modern functional programming feature was inspired by haskell, if it didn't invent it it sure proved its usefulness.
- nineteen999 6y ago> Rust has this thing called “Firefox” Less than 10% of it: https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ Also there were several Rust developers laid off from Mozilla a few months back, including the Servo team: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/i7stjy/how_do_mozilla_layoffs_affect_ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/i7stjy/how_do_mozilla...
- earthboundkid 6y agoYes, and? The point is that Firefox substantially depends on Rust and is the most prominent OSS Rust project. People would notice if FF went away one day. No one would notice if pandoc disappeared until they got some weird files they needed to convert.