Re:Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applic...
by ackfoobar on Sunday March 06, 2022 @09:59PM
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Similar experience, but Scala with pure FP (Cats) rather than Haskell.
We have
- "beautiful" code by zealots (who left) that has terrible performance. I've done two refactorings that bring > 100x performance increase.
- code by latecomers that misses the points of FP semantics and is subtly wrong.
- horrible compilation speed, therefore time-to-test, from heavy use of advanced features that add little value. The long feedback loop hurts not only productivity, also morale.
We have
- "beautiful" code by zealots (who left) that has terrible performance. I've done two refactorings that bring > 100x performance increase.
- code by latecomers that misses the points of FP semantics and is subtly wrong.
- horrible compilation speed, therefore time-to-test, from heavy use of advanced features that add little value. The long feedback loop hurts not only productivity, also morale.