If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the world? (2017)

Re:If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the worl... by paulgramcracker on Sunday May 20, 2018 @05:04PM (#17114713)

Haskell is a young language, and the vast majority (99%+) of programmers have not learned functional programming.

Another observation is that the programming industry does not care about correctness or writing stable software, since they have no liability for broken shit. There isn’t a strong push for writing consumer software that isn’t riddled with bugs.

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Re:If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the worl... by hugelgupf on Sunday May 20, 2018 @05:07PM (#17114732)

Haskell is 28 years old.

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Re:If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the worl... by walshemj on Sunday May 20, 2018 @05:14PM (#17114762)

And in recent poll of programming popularity Haskell came just behind PL/1 :-) I bet there are not many hn regulars who have used Pl/1 in production.

Its also funny that Paul seems to think there where no high level languages before c

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Re:If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the worl... by boothead on Sunday May 20, 2018 @05:06PM (#17114726)

30 ish years is young for a programming language now?

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Re:If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the worl... by lucas_membrane on Sunday May 20, 2018 @06:10PM (#17115023)

PL1 is approximately 54, and it was put together to cover the application domains of 2 previous language successes, Fortran and COBOL, which still live. Fortran is more than twice 30 years old, BASIC approximately 53, RPG 59.

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Re:If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the worl... by paulgramcracker on Sunday May 20, 2018 @05:10PM (#17114751)

Haskell is the youngest language that isn’t derivative.Monads for IO weren’t being seriously used until the late 90s. All the imperative C derivative languages are much older.

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Re:If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the worl... by Smaug123 on Sunday May 20, 2018 @05:54PM (#17114966)

A very young language that is (to my knowledge) not derivative of older ones unless you count Excel: https://www.luna-lang.org

It comes with C, JS, and Haskell interoperability, and it's implemented in Haskell, but the heart of the language is its visual representation. I have personally never seen anything like it before.

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Re:If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the worl... by lalos on Sunday May 20, 2018 @06:36PM (#17115118)

Some devs prefer being woken up on their on-call duty to fix a Javascript bug that could've been caught by GHC. It only makes sense when you put on the business hat, e.g. the big pro is that they are first to market, etc.

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