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Depends on what you mean by 'start from zero'. Haskell was born as a design by committee research language to serve as a platform for answering various question

by dagw 3y ago

Depends on what you mean by 'start from zero'. Haskell was born as a design by committee research language to serve as a platform for answering various questions in programming language research, including a lot of questions about the effectiveness of laziness. As such Haskell without laziness would not be fit for purpose. Some people on the other hand want to say that the research part is 'done' and that Haskell should move on and become just another language suitable for use in industry and production. And some of those people think that laziness should be relaxed.

agentultra 3y ago
And some people think laziness is still good and a desire-able property [0]. tldr; laziness enables a lot of optimizations for high-level languages that are good for performance. Laziness/strictness aren't direct causes for performance but impact it in different ways. There are a lot of myths around thunks and memory usage. There are still fertile areas for improvement. Haskell is suitable for industrial use and production. Most of the research being done these days is around maintaining an industrial-grade compiler pipeline while supporting new, interesting features [1]. And it has been that way for quite a long time now. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSqE-HSh_NU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSqE-HSh_NU [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334751646_Dependently_typed_Haskell_in_industry_experience_report https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334751646_Dependent...