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Well, “never took hold” is relatively. It is and will likely always be a niche language, but one with a quite big audience and ecosystem. There are people happi
by kaba0 4y ago
Well, “never took hold” is relatively. It is and will likely always be a niche language, but one with a quite big audience and ecosystem. There are people happily using different languages that are much smaller, they just happen to occupy a less academic niche — e.g. I’m guessing but you probably don’t have such feelings against D, when it might very well be smaller than Haskell.
- Yoric 4y agoTo clarify, I have actually coded a bit in Haskell and I have actually released open-source code in SML/NJ, a commercial application in OCaml and worked (as a very minor contributor) on industrial code in Coq. But if I have to start a new industrial project, I will most likely use Rust, because it is easier to hire and because there is lots of momentum in the Rust ecosystem, which means that there are crates for just about everything.