The most successful haskell project I've seen in the wild is shellcheck [0]. Here is cloc run against the repo: $ cloc . 75 text files.

The most successful haskell project I've seen in the wild is shellcheck [0]. Here is cloc run against the repo: $ cloc . 75 text files. 75 unique files. 12 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.90 T=0.08 s (788.1 files/s, 271069.0 lines/s) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files blank comment code -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haskell 29 2381 1321 15440 Markdown 5 393 0 1088 Bourne Again Shell 12 99 39 438 SVG 1 32 0 262 YAML 3 39 23 160 Dockerfile 6 35 54 104 Bourne Shell 8 3 4 99 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUM: 64 2982 1441 17591 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wouldn't say that this is a compressed version of a 100,000 lines of C++. I'm not adept at evaluating a Haskell source base to do a translation to C++ either. [0]: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck