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> it's the cultural focus on theory rather than humans that I don't like. That's completely fine. Haskell is not a single community. There are two big camps th
by mchaver 5y ago
> it's the cultural focus on theory rather than humans that I don't like.
That's completely fine. Haskell is not a single community. There are two big camps that often interact with each other, the academic and the industrial. Keep in mind the origin of Haskell is academic and it's original purpose is to test and implement ideas from Programming Language Theory. That is still there and will continue. GHC optimizes for letting people experiment with language extensions. Industrial interest didn't start to grow until somewhere around 2008-2012. It is a small community and will likely remain so.
I am a big Haskell user myself. There are many theoretical things I don't understand or need to touch, but I appreciate their contributions to the language and the community. I do agree that Haskell has lots of room to improve on tutorials for non-academics. Maybe I will get inspired to write somethings.
It's completely fine if you don't want to use it. However, you may find Haskell users' enthusiasm for the language insufferable, hehe. I do hope anyone who chooses to interact with the Haskell community finds us welcoming.