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Re:Is Haskell a good choice for software security? by spekcular on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:17PM (#29597022)
The question was: For what problem (or problem domain) is Haskell better than Rust? (Back here, for instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29595022).

The links you gave provide general information about Haskell, but do not answer that question, from what I can see. I don't want a single sentence reason, just a compelling one.

Again: I'm not doing this to be adversarial. A decent number of people seem to really love Haskell and extol its virtues. So I'm trying to carefully check that I'm not missing something.

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Re:Is Haskell a good choice for software security? by the_af on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:01PM (#29597631)
> The question was: For what problem (or problem domain) is Haskell better than Rust?

Haskell is a general purpose language, so it's good for any domain well served by a general purpose language. The rest is the list of benefits of statically typed, lazy first, pure functional programming languages.

"Haskell or Rust?" is not a question that can be meaningfully and objectively answered in a comment on HN.

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