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Pick something slightly esoteric (eg Haskell) and the quality of public code is very high, because you only have enthusiasts writing it. Choose something taught
by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
Pick something slightly esoteric (eg Haskell) and the quality of public code is very high, because you only have enthusiasts writing it. Choose something taught in schools (Python) and you are going to find 10,000 traveling salesmen homework problems and Django todo applications.
Not sure how you thread the needle on the quality vs quantity dynamic.
- serf 2mo ago>Pick something slightly esoteric (eg Haskell) and the quality of public code is very high, because you only have enthusiasts writing it. that and the language supports (enforces) good decision making; static typing w/ inference and a functional style as a first class concept. which then rolls into the same result : higher quality code available.
- scotty79 2mo agoQuantity, it seems is a quality in itself.
- msgcatalog 2mo agoYour point is a good one: Exotic, difficult languages attract enthusiasts with deeper skills than a median developer. Haskell also has a confounding issue: Because of its focus on research and experimentation, standard best practices don't exist like they do in languages optimized for real-world use. Because there are few community guidelines, engineering practices vary widely, and unfortunately at the same time, Haskell's public codebase resources are small. To see this playing out, check out Haskell discussions about choosing a SQL library, effect system, monad transformer stack, or web framework. The answers are all over the map because that diversity is baked into Haskell's culture and practice.
- frollogaston 2mo agoWas going to ask what is the Numpy equivalent in Haskell. Cause Python has a thousand decent examples of how to do everything you might want to do in Numpy.
- msgcatalog 2mo ago[flagged]