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#+TITLE: Haskell criticisms
#+Author: Yann Esposito

tags :: [[id:28b1b988-b2de-46aa-9a47-78a94aa5e2ce][haskell]]
source :: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23364485

We dance around this issue in the comments to every Haskell story, but the
reason Haskell is hard to market is that it's bad.
It's a research language being shoehorned into production by a few people
who really love it.
Some details of this have been given in this thread; let me suggest the
following threads for more:

1) https://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/3ifwe9/what_are_ocamlers_critiques_of_haskell/cugohyn/
2) https://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/e7g4nb/haskell_vs_ocaml/fa4bnsw/

Yes, the Haskell community hates that guy and considers him a troll.
But he does functional programming professionally as part of a private
consultancy and wrote a book on OCaml.
If anyone's equipped to understand what's wrong with Haskell, it's him.
Haskell has had 30 years to get its act together.
Any benefits it has are drowned out by a sea of buggy tooling and
accidental complexity (monads, etc.).
Ask yourself this: if there are literally billions of dollars in industry
riding on writing efficient and correct software, and Haskell is such an
obvious productivity win, why does it have a market share that rounds to
zero?
Time to move on.