> By comparison, Go has 9k users and 50k repos. And a lot of people say that Go is not that useful of a language because the community is small. Some people ca

> By comparison, Go has 9k users and 50k repos. And a lot of people say that Go is not that useful of a language because the community is small. Some people call Python too small. Some even claim "Haskell is mostly used for small, single-purpose tools, or it's used to teach FP principles". Some people say a lot of things, that doesn't make it true. > My definition of practical is this: people use it in practice. They use it for business or for personal projects that other people get use out of. I use Haskell for freelance clients currently. > The core purpose of software is to automate things that, otherwise, people would have to do. What large jobs is Haskell currently automating for people? https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry Standard Chartered is particularly of note, as you can see in this quora question. You can also see other examples of Haskell automating jobs for people: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-largest-commercial-program-written-in-Haskell http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-largest-commercial-program-...