Re:On Marketing Haskell
by pwm on Sunday May 31, 2020 @06:54AM
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People put energy into what's most useful for them and I don't think they should be blamed for this. I'm sure I'm biased but Lens and Parseq (and its successors) are both amazing libraries solving real problems in a powerful way. You probably don't agree and that's perfectly fine by me. I'd also go as far as saying that the 2 libs you've picked actually have pretty comprehensive documentations as well which is not always the case with Haskell libs (a real problem I 100% agree with btw).
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I’m not blaming them, mostly, but I am pointing out that what they’ve put their effort is not consistent with industry usage. Parsec is neat, but parsing is a relatively niche industrial need, and lens sits somewhere between PL research and “solving problems that only Haskell has”.
They’re fine libraries, they’re just not what I want to see if you’re trying to convince me to replace Java with Haskell at work. If I was looking to write a compiler however...