To be fair, what was called Haskell prime and ended up being I guess Haskell 2010 also took forever. Haskell users have strong opinions about language syntax-

To be fair, what was called Haskell prime and ended up being I guess Haskell 2010 also took forever. Haskell users have strong opinions about language syntax- I suppose moreso than your averaged user base. It may take a generation as Doug crockford says for those options to die and retire so new ones can come take their place. Looks like that still holds.