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> How do the creators stay motivated to put so much effort into building and maintaining these languages? Here[0] is Simon Peyton Jones going through the histo
by _448 6y ago
> How do the creators stay motivated to put so much effort into building and maintaining these languages?
Here[0] is Simon Peyton Jones going through the history of Haskell. Somewhere after 10:30mins into the video he answers your question.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06x8Wf2r2Mc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06x8Wf2r2Mc
- garmaine 6y agoI feel that Haskell is a bit of a different case though. Like Lisp and Forth, people use Haskell because they are attracted to something at the core of the language itself which no mainstream language has. It’s like the same reason people learn Lojban as a spoken language. For languages that are trying to be actual deployable systems programming compilers in widespread use, that intrinsic motivation doesn’t seem to be there I think.