Could you breakdown the types of boilerplate you're finding? IME most of it is from having generic (Hinze style) ways of handling datatypes instead of specific ones.
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16. GADTs... very cool, but not very usable: too powerful for a lot of the tooling to work, yet too weak to express the things you really want to say.
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17. I never understood why people complained so much about the OCaml syntax, until I had to use it. Ugly, indents poorly. Case-sensitive, ugh. And is there really no way to specify a module for an infix operator without including the operands?
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That drives me nuts. Every single complicated language adds a hundred smaller crippled configuration languages. But they can't even see this as admitting their language failed.
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