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> It's actually about what could kill Haskell, not what could kill Rust? Here is the articles title: "What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too" So no, it's n
by usrbinbash 3y ago
> It's actually about what could kill Haskell, not what could kill Rust?
Here is the articles title: "What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too"
So no, it's not about what could kill Haskell. In 2022, ~0.3% of all code pushed to github was Haskell. To put that number into perspective: vimscript was ~0.25%
- tome 3y agoYes, I can read the title thanks. The article is about Haskell. The first sentence makes it clear it's speculative fiction presented as if from the year 2030. The article draws a hypothetical analogy between what could happen to Rust in 2030 and what is contemporaneously happening to Haskell.
- usrbinbash 3y agoYes, I read the article, thanks. Yes, it is a speculative fiction, with a good reason, because the analogies are pretty clear.
- tome 3y agoAnd to return to the topic at hand, despite that article pointing to some weakness in the Haskell community, Haskell is thriving, so "We're suggesting that people should just use Rust (or Haskell, or F#, or any other robust functional programming language) instead" seems like reasonable advice to me.
- usrbinbash 3y ago> Haskell is thriving https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38360177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38360177 So, according to what metric is Haskell "thriving"?
- tome 3y agoI'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that something that occupies 0.3% of an ecosystem can't be thriving? "Thriving" is not the same concept as "widely used" or "popular"!