the reasonableness of the statement "Haskell isn't practical" may depend somewhat on whether it's a statement about learning Haskell or about wanting to use Haskell for a project or startup; sometimes the flavor is "it won't be fast enough" or "it won't scale well enough"
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Or about wanting a job. Most of the people in our Haskell meetup write code in other languages for a living.
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Including those who write Mercury :)
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I actually don’t write Mercury at work - mainly just Rust. Unless you are referring to ! But he really just wants to write Plasma!
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Right, I write C++ for work, for fun, Plasma is built in . Last Haskell I wrote was the tiny little language I wrote for my talk last year, before that I suppose when I was teaching it.
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i had no idea you wrote Plasma! i know very little about it, but i've been interested in Mercury (off an on) for a while now.
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I HAD NO IDEA IT WAS USED IN INDUSTRY
and now we've come full circle :)
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Hahh yup. Even more eclectic than Haskell! We use it to build Prince - a HTML+CSS layout engine that targets PDF. Been around for a long time, but I’m super impressed at how nice the codebase is. Can still make changes without fear!
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Hang on a sec—the same Prince that was created by the creator of the Opera browser? I think I actually used Prince a little back in like 2002 or 3
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