boringisnormal

Second that. Unless you really know what you are doing, don't use it.

Different times, different people.

Do you have anything original to add?

The quote is fantastic and it does bring out an interesting dimension. Not all parts of the code base are equally important. That is for another day. I believe you are missing the context. Allow me to explain.

Source lines of code is a proxy to the complexity of the problem in hand. With the assumption that the engineers will not unnecessarily write code just to fill up the code base or pass time, we can safely say that the number of lines of code for a database will be significantly higher than say a networking library. To write more lines of code, we need more engineers. And with more engineers, we uncover a variety of problems.

No accomplished Haskell programmer will agree that Go is a functional language. At least the ones that I know don't. I think FP programmers are not in agreement as to what constitutes a functional language, example Haskell vs Clojure vs Elixir.

I would love to see atleast a few large projects implemented with Haskell/FP before making such tall claims. Large here means few millions of lines of source code and more than 50 engineers working on the same project, a monolith such as a database or a message broker.