Scarf has moved away from Haskell

Re:Scarf has moved away from Haskell by ulrikrasmussen on Saturday July 11, 2026 @11:55AM (#48873140)

I had a similar experience as you. We normally use Kotlin for everything, but last year we had to do a small project in Python. Setting up the tooling and choosing the tools is quite overwhelming, and the inconsistency between what the tools actually consider type errors is incredibly frustrating. I am actually happy that the project failed and that we don't have to work in that environment anymore.

I think Python is probably good for many things, including scripts and as a starter language, but I don't understand how anyone can stand writing large software systems in it.

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Re:Scarf has moved away from Haskell by doug_durham on Saturday July 11, 2026 @01:03PM (#48873695)

Not my experience at all. There are a couple of linters to choose from, and uv is becoming the dominant packaging environment. In my experience it is much easier to write large maintainable projects in Python than in TypeScript. Python has more language features and certainly a much better ecosystem. Who knows where things will go. In the future language choice will be much less important. Languages are largely a human artifact.

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Re:Scarf has moved away from Haskell by za3faran on Friday July 17, 2026 @09:25PM (#48954211)

You still need a language/platform that performs well. Python and gang do not when compared to things like the JVM and .NET.

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