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>Google's Ganeti? Microsoft's Bond? Only 2 known products for 20+ years of being widely known and available is unimpressive.
by solomatov 12y ago
>Google's Ganeti? Microsoft's Bond?
Only 2 known products for 20+ years of being widely known and available is unimpressive.
- dragonwriter 12y agoThose aren't the only two known projects, those are just two examples of open source projects that are, in addition, used in key infrastructure by the major solutions provider that is the original source of the project, and so widely, if indirectly, used. More Haskell use in production: https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry
- solomatov 12y agoCompare this list to Java/C#/C++ used in the industry. Or even to Scala/Clojure/Erlang used in industry. There will be several orders of magnitude difference.
- dragonwriter 12y agoAnd, so what? Sure, Haskell is less popular in industry many other languages. That was true of all the currently popular industrial languages before they became popular. But its certainly not the case that there are no succesfull uses of Haskell in significant systems.
- solomatov 12y ago>That was true of all the currently popular industrial languages before they became popular. The most popular language, namely C#, Java and C++ became popular quite quickly. >But its certainly not the case that there are no succesfull uses of Haskell in significant systems. I didn't say that. I am sure there are successful uses for Haskell, but there're no killer apps for it.
- codygman 12y ago> The most popular language, namely C#, Java and C++ became popular quite quickly. But those languages had corporate backing. Haskell doesn't have corporate backing, so shouldn't you compare it to languages that became popular and didn't have corporate backing?