Re:If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the worl...
by galaxyLogic on Sunday May 20, 2018 @05:32PM
(#17114854)
Makes a lot of sense. Haskell comes with baggage and has an impedance-mismatch with other commonly used languages.
Similar reasons must have been to blame for the demise of Smalltalk. The best solution of its time many believe, but not easy to integrate with other languages and other ways of doing things.
Also let me add it was difficult to create small Smalltalk programs that wouldn't require most of the base-library to be tagged along. Then you couldn't import it to another environment where the base libraries were somewhat different.
Similar reasons must have been to blame for the demise of Smalltalk. The best solution of its time many believe, but not easy to integrate with other languages and other ways of doing things.
Also let me add it was difficult to create small Smalltalk programs that wouldn't require most of the base-library to be tagged along. Then you couldn't import it to another environment where the base libraries were somewhat different.