Yeah, but even better Rust has `except`, but that's besides the point. Rust doesn't pretend to by a pure language, it just promises to be a safe language as lon

Yeah, but even better Rust has `except`, but that's besides the point. Rust doesn't pretend to by a pure language, it just promises to be a safe language as long as you don't use `unsafe`. Haskell makes a big fuss about how it's pure and productive because you have fewer bugs. And this is true as long as you're writing pure data processing or algorithmic code. But as soon as you stray from that and try to build a practical program, you'll need the IO monad and it sucks, even Java deals better with exceptions than Haskell. All the type class expressiveness in the world, and they couldn't figure out how to model exceptions. And it used to be that Haskell could just introduce backwards incompatible changes because it was a research language. But now Haskell is used widely in production, and even though it's in desperate need of a new Prelude, it's not gonna happen. When someone who truly believed in that Haskell could be a proper modern programming tool and invested their hard work and frankly their genius into it, they Haskell leadership responded with skepticism and inaction. I bet if you gave Snoyman full dictatorship over a new Haskell prelude, it would be the best general purpose programming language by a mile for the next decade at least. Instead Haskell will remain as backwards as its ISO 8859-1 String type.