hey, when would you build something in Haskell instead of rust? As in, for what kind of software do you care less about safety and speed and more about expressiveness?
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I'm not sure I have a good answer! I'm much more comfortable with Rust's packaging and tooling - always found stack and cabal have always been hard to use reliably, along with the editor integrations. Those are improving though.
That said, I miss lots of haskell's abstractions when I want to test stuff. It's nice not to have to use dependency injection when I want to test things.
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So yeah, if I had a more business logic modelling use case I would be more likely to try to get into Haskell. Hard to beat the data structures and separation of effects from pure stuff that you get in Haskell land.
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PS I've been working on a side project in typescript and enjoying myself. It's my first time since uni using a statically typed language in anger. I can see myself really getting into Haskell one day.
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It's a web app fuzzer that knows whether it's exploring new states by looking at coverage via Chrome Devtools Protocol
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