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[Off topic] > TSCoding has a 1 min video on why he doesn't program in Haskell anymore This is very interesting, and as someone who is spending a lot of time t
by tome 4y ago
[Off topic]
> TSCoding has a 1 min video on why he doesn't program in Haskell anymore
This is very interesting, and as someone who is spending a lot of time trying to bring Haskell to a wider audience it is missing a key piece of information that would help me: what is the link between Haskell being a beautiful and elegant language and it not being engineered properly? I can see (at least) two distinct possibilities:
1. Beautiful and elegant languages can simply never been engineered properly (or it's too hard to be worth trying). There is an irreconcilable tension between beauty and utility.
2. Haskell people are too interested in making something beautiful that they don't bother trying to make it useful as well, but they (or others) could.
[For the record, I don't agree with the presenter's point of view: I find Haskell both the most beautiful and the most useful language I know.]