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.
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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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That said, I feel a bit hobbled in gradually typed langs because you can't do the neat type driven meta-programming that you can do in Rust/Haskell. Ie. define some types and some traits, and then generate a bunch of implementation boilerplate.
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Granted, while Haskell is a bit nicer than Rust at doing that, it's still not as nice as *hypothetical dependently typed language*... the downside of types is once you get some, you always want more 🤦♂️ - not sure if we'll ever be able to solve that conundrum.
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