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> I'm just starting to learn Haskell and I honestly can't fathom how it gets written in production. Everything requires so much more consideration, which is fun

> I'm just starting to learn Haskell and I honestly can't fathom how it gets written in production. Everything requires so much more consideration, which is fun and valuable in some situations, but not when you just need to get the damn thing done in time for a deadline. There are ways to write quick n dirty Haskell. Actually a super-power of Haskell is how easy it is to refactor from "quick n dirty" to "reasonable quality" without introducing defects.

spopejoy 3y ago
> Actually a super-power of Haskell is how easy it is to refactor from "quick n dirty" to "reasonable quality" without introducing defects. I call haskell "the language of maintainable spaghetti" in this spirit. It really is incredible how types can take 99% of the risk out of refactoring. Indeed while I miss machine refactoring tools from Java, I've seen vanishingly few bugs result from manual refactoring in haskell.