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I don't know much Haskell, but isn't Haskell's goal to serve as a vehicle for research in functional programming languages, rather than to offer a language that
by MaxBarraclough 5y ago
I don't know much Haskell, but isn't Haskell's goal to serve as a vehicle for research in functional programming languages, rather than to offer a language that's useful for real-world work?
As I understand it, the core Haskell folks don't especially care about Haskell's (admittedly limited) real-world usage. Or, if you prefer: real-world usage is a side-effect, not a value.
- themulticaster 5y agoI'd say that among pure functional programming languages (i.e. excluding Erlang, Scala and OCaml) Haskell is the language most suited for real-world usage. Yes, there is a lot of research being done on Haskell, but a lot of the research is centered on areas that more or less directly contribute to typical real-world usage. Consider the recent introduction of linear types for example: They're both exciting from a type theoretic perspective, but could also improve some real-world scenarios (even though at this point linear types are still quite new, so there's not a lot of examples out there).