At least people use it, which is more than what could ever be said about Haskell, so it had a larger impact overall ... while getting things done at the same ti

At least people use it, which is more than what could ever be said about Haskell, so it had a larger impact overall ... while getting things done at the same time. You only need to have one look at it's module system/Cabal/Hackage to see that it was never intended for larger code bases than people's PhD thesis. Yes, it can scale: In the same way PHP and JavaScript does.