Re:Why is Haskell used so little in the industry?
by gphil on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @11:39AM
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I remember this post from a couple of years ago. I also remember thinking that it reflected more poorly on this guy than it did Haskell, and I think it still does today.
Additionally, one of the more important criticisms that I actually shared with the OP is that it took me a few evenings to get up and running with Haskell around 2008-2009 on Mac OS X. However that problem has been just about completely solved by the Haskell platform (http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/) these days.
Also, recent activity in the Snap and Yesod web frameworks makes me more optimistic for Haskell adoption in industry, although it still has to clear a lot of adoption hurdles before it becomes more common.
Additionally, one of the more important criticisms that I actually shared with the OP is that it took me a few evenings to get up and running with Haskell around 2008-2009 on Mac OS X. However that problem has been just about completely solved by the Haskell platform (http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/) these days.
Also, recent activity in the Snap and Yesod web frameworks makes me more optimistic for Haskell adoption in industry, although it still has to clear a lot of adoption hurdles before it becomes more common.