Re:Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell
by rowanG077 on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @04:24PM
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I only agree with the runtime characteristics point. It's very hard to get an idea of what is efficient or not sometimes. But on every other point I believe Haskell is magnitudes better for general software development then mainstream languages.
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That's my point (sry I edited my post, when you already replied).
It's a good programming languages, but being "magnitudes better" is absolutely not true in my experience.
Perhaps the ideal language is then a combination of two approaches: Haskell in the outer loops, Rust in the inner loops?
Re:Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell
by marcosdumay on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @05:52PM
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The Python code using C libraries you get on machine learning is a nice model. There is no reason why you can't recreate it with Haskell + Rust.
But it has one drawback that it's relatively slow to pack stuff to send between languages. On Python everything is so slow that this doesn't make much of a difference, but on the Haskell + Rust scenario you will want much larger library blocks.