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Re:Haskell Problems for a New Decade by hopia on Friday January 24, 2020 @01:08PM (#22140848)
Yeah the the very first and by now a worn out dismissal you always see is it's an academic research language, not for writing REAL software.

Out of interest, what kind of software do you build with Haskell? I'm doing web stuff and haven't quite been able to decide whether to stick to Haskell or Elixir for my own projects.

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Re:Haskell Problems for a New Decade by whateveracct on Friday January 24, 2020 @01:26PM (#22141034)
Hm I'd describe it mostly as generic "backend engineering." Web services, databases, data processing, etc. I've used GHCJS as well but I mostly made small changes (I don't have frontend skills.)

In my free time I'm making games in Haskell, but that's slow-going partially due to the ecosystem not being mature but mostly due to lack of free time :)

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