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Re:Haskell Fan Site by dmix on Sunday June 23, 2019 @10:18PM (#20260021)
Which doesn't necessarily mean it's not useful for building real world things. Lumi [1][2] was built with Haskell (and PureScript) and looks like a great product.

To me it just means more people need to a) build more real things in Haskell b) write about their experience and help advance the state for non-academic newbies and professionals c) avoid the weeds of the language theory stuff and stick the simple established stuff to stay productive (which does exist).

You could also make the same argument for JavaScript. So many people are trying to reinvent the wheel every other week in the frontend world, it's just as easy to get distracted by the language/framework noise.

Just be a mature developer and don't get suckered into the latest shiny objects.

[1] https://www.lumi.com/

[2] https://www.lumi.dev/blog/purescript-and-haskell-at-lumi

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Re:Haskell Fan Site by merijnv on Monday June 24, 2019 @05:08AM (#20261686)
Don't forget: XMonad, pandoc, and ShellCheck
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Re:Haskell Fan Site by pteredactyl on Sunday June 23, 2019 @10:52PM (#20260111)
Correct. Interesting you bring up JS, as the Haskellers I spoke of loathed JS and treated it and its developers as below them. But that's just my experience.

I hope Lumi was able to gain efficiencies using PureScript and Haskell. And that they're able to attract talent. Thanks for sharing.

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Re:Haskell Fan Site by alexbanks on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:11AM (#20260908)
In my experience Haskellers speak that way about every language that isn't Haskell or Rust, which I found to be probably the biggest turnoff for me wrt learning Haskell.
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