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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by jolfdb on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @08:20AM (#19980338)
Do you need an alternative to GHC?
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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by nudq on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @09:04AM (#19980683)
What's GHC's bus factor? (Actual question.)
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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by bojo on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @12:08PM (#19982651)
The top 10 contributors are active and fairly well known in the community (I recognize 5 of the names at least), of 170 members with commit bits for the project.

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/graphs/master

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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by foldr on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @09:17AM (#19980823)
I would certainly like a compiler that was fast enough to be usable with realistically-sized codebases. I'm writing this while waiting a couple of minutes for ~10,000 lines of Haskell to compile.
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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @04:51PM (#19985356)
Interestingly, compilation time was one of the motivations for Go.

Can you create a Haskell compiler that is faster than GHC? Probably. Can you create one that is fast? I'm much more skeptical of that.

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