Haskell Problems for a New Decade

Re:Haskell Problems for a New Decade by eli_gottlieb on Friday January 24, 2020 @08:52AM (#22138207)

I'm going to give the same Haskell hot-take I gave on Twitter while at NeurIPS in December: the problem with Haskell is that you can port the awesome parts of pure, compositional abstractions over to Python, far more quickly than you can port really good domain-specific libraries and applications over to Haskell. My experience was that porting some nice ADT-based machinery to Python, using an available ADT library, took roughly one weekend, whereas porting the major domain-specific package I needed from Python to Haskell would take months to years.

I love Haskell. I prefer to use Haskell when I can. Haskell is a language in which I can Achieve Enlightenment. But apparently, God help me if I need to do some heavy graph processing or CUDA numerics in Haskell.

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Re:Haskell Problems for a New Decade by ashilfarahmand on Sunday January 26, 2020 @03:08PM (#22154403)

So, uh, I was looking through past threads (this one in particular https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21578769) and I came across your comment:

"I might be spat at or beaten up in the street for being Jewish - that happens in Brooklyn or LA anyway these days."

And I was wondering, how has it been for Jews in the US in the past few years up till now? When did things start to get noticeably worse?

I know about the rising Anti-Semitism and the particular incident in NY about a month ago.

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Re:Haskell Problems for a New Decade by eli_gottlieb on Monday January 27, 2020 @10:42AM (#22160297)

If you want to talk about that, you should contact me privately. I don't want to derail a nice thread.

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Re:Haskell Problems for a New Decade by ashilfarahmand on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:47PM (#22188917)

I'm totally fine doing that but I don't know how. Can we private message?

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Re:Haskell Problems for a New Decade by eli_gottlieb on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:39AM (#22201126)

My profile on here links to my Github Pages site, which has an email address on it.

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Re:Haskell Problems for a New Decade by pron on Friday January 24, 2020 @09:07AM (#22138334)

BTW, ADTs are coming to Java real soon: https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/amber/datum.html

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