2021-09-15 07:12:29 +00:00
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2020-06-01 13:59:31 +00:00
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#+TITLE: Haskell criticisms
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#+Author: Yann Esposito
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2021-09-15 07:12:29 +00:00
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tags :: [[id:28b1b988-b2de-46aa-9a47-78a94aa5e2ce][haskell]]
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2020-06-01 13:59:31 +00:00
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source :: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23364485
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We dance around this issue in the comments to every Haskell story, but the
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reason Haskell is hard to market is that it's bad.
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It's a research language being shoehorned into production by a few people
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who really love it.
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Some details of this have been given in this thread; let me suggest the
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following threads for more:
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1) https://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/3ifwe9/what_are_ocamlers_critiques_of_haskell/cugohyn/
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2) https://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/e7g4nb/haskell_vs_ocaml/fa4bnsw/
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Yes, the Haskell community hates that guy and considers him a troll.
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But he does functional programming professionally as part of a private
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consultancy and wrote a book on OCaml.
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If anyone's equipped to understand what's wrong with Haskell, it's him.
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Haskell has had 30 years to get its act together.
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Any benefits it has are drowned out by a sea of buggy tooling and
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accidental complexity (monads, etc.).
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Ask yourself this: if there are literally billions of dollars in industry
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riding on writing efficient and correct software, and Haskell is such an
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obvious productivity win, why does it have a market share that rounds to
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zero?
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Time to move on.
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