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Re:Leaving Haskell Behind by jamincan on Thursday August 24, 2023 @08:28AM (#37247997)
> Sometimes I wonder if some language communities really are cults. It's the same with Lisp - replace "type system" with "homoiconic" and you have the exact same mantras about ultimate supremacy and "intellectual" superiority. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating and across probably 10 computing devices in my home, not a single one has any Haskell or Lisp programs running on it. Lots of Java, C, C++, Python, Rust, Bash, JavaScript, even Perl (probably) but not a single binary compiled from Haskell or Lisp interpreter to be found. To any reasonable person, that should be a strong signal about the so called "power" and value of their sacred cow.

Xmonad and pandoc are probably the most heavily used Haskell programs. Not necessarily contradicting your overall point, just exhibiting the two examples that someone might reasonably be expected to run into.

Re:Leaving Haskell Behind by mathisfun123 on Thursday August 24, 2023 @08:32AM (#37248030)
fair enough - i don't use xmonad but i do use pandoc on occasion. in full transparency: it occurred to me that i am familiar with postgrest, though i've never run it personally. still no lisp programs though!
Re:Leaving Haskell Behind by littlestymaar on Thursday August 24, 2023 @12:30PM (#37250907)
Isn't HN written in lisp?
Re:Leaving Haskell Behind by Pannoniae on Thursday August 24, 2023 @01:19PM (#37251754)
Arc, but I think it counts because it's a lisp-like....
Re:Leaving Haskell Behind by mathisfun123 on Thursday August 24, 2023 @07:00PM (#37255655)
and <looks around> what can we conclude from this?
Re:Leaving Haskell Behind by Pannoniae on Thursday August 24, 2023 @07:21PM (#37255822)
that lisp is a perfectly usable language for writing cool and usable things :)
Re:Leaving Haskell Behind by mathisfun123 on Thursday August 24, 2023 @08:23PM (#37256286)
what exactly is hn usable for other than aggregating links and text comments?
Re:Leaving Haskell Behind by Pannoniae on Friday August 25, 2023 @03:03AM (#37258942)
If it wasn't an usable and/or interesting thing, you wouldn't use it...
Re:Leaving Haskell Behind by doktrin on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:32AM (#37249171)
> xmonad

I got rid of xmonad in favor of i3 ages ago - precisely because it doesn't force me to edit a Haskell script just to change a keybinding.