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Re:The Haskell Elephant in the Room by dgellow on Thursday July 30, 2020 @11:51AM (#23999578)
But... who actually thinks this way when they select technologies? If Go was used for a lot of crypto scam, I wouldn’t spend a second thinking about it when I’m deciding to use it for my non-scam, non-crypto’s project.

I have difficulty to understand how it is an issue that a programming language is used for a niche that has bad reputation.

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Re:The Haskell Elephant in the Room by renodubois on Friday July 31, 2020 @12:46AM (#24005754)
From my view, its less about using the technology for side projects, and more about job prospects using that language. If Haskell jobs are overwhelmingly associated with crypto, and that’s a negative association for most people, they might be less likely to invest time into learning Haskell, as they’re not interested in joining the crypto industry.
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Re:The Haskell Elephant in the Room by dgellow on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:30AM (#24006812)
That’s fair, thanks for sharing your point of view
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Re:The Haskell Elephant in the Room by yw3410 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @07:51PM (#24004121)
The collapse of AI research in the 1980's directly caused a decline in Lisp research.
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