Why hasn't Haskell taken over the world? And the curious case of Go
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HN comment orderI struggle with this. After years of studying OO and design patterns in Ruby and JavaScript I was having troubling building complex asynchronous systems and stumbled into Go. I saw the value of types for managing that complexity and the runtime for supporting asynchronous primitives, but internally was very limited by the lack of generics for things like collections and higher order control flow for things like error handling. Eventually I arrived at Haskell after strongly considering Clojure, and I'm…
The author notes the success of Go. Go's developers knew when to stop. Go is a mediocre language, but it has all the parts needed for server-side software. That's a big market. I suspect that part of the success of Go is simply because its libraries are heavily used. You know that the library is serving a zillion requests a second in Google data centers. Major bugs have probably been found by now. Go has one solidly debugged library for…
I think pure FP is too alien. I mean any programmer expects a language to have for loops and mutation. That said, I love Haskell and I have endless fun studying and playing with it.
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-21 | Why hasn't Haskell taken over the world? And the curious case of GoFirst breakout · Best thread | atombender | 130 | 165 |
| 2018-05-20 | If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the world? (2017)Latest 20+ point return | tosh | 123 | 149 |
| 2019-10-12 | If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the world? | fortran77 | 1 | 3 |