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Re:We decided to go for the big rewrite by macspoofing on Friday October 04, 2019 @10:40AM (#21158167)
>Not trying to come off as too snarky

I had a similar thought. Postgres is a great choice, but then they also went with Haskell ... I look forward to another blog post in 2-3 years detailed all the ways that Haskell failed them and that at the day they should have just gone with an industry standard language.

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Re:We decided to go for the big rewrite by samprotas on Friday October 04, 2019 @11:33AM (#21158648)
https://tech.channable.com/posts/2017-02-24-how-we-secretly-...

FWIW they have this post from almost 3 years ago about adding Haskell to their stack. I'm guessing the time for your prediction has come and gone.

On the other hand, I find it quite encouraging that Haskell was barely mentioned. It seems they viewed the risk as "changing the projects language" rather than "using a non industry standard language".

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