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Mar 8, 2018

Haskell is flawed and is kind of getting weighed down by the many decades of decisions… hoping we can welcome a new generation of FP langs in the next decade with better ergonomics. Keeping my eye on Idris and Sixten for instance.

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Mar 8, 2018

Also cool stuff happening with Reason - reinventing OCaml in some neat ways, whilst providing a decent migration path for JS devs, and great, pragmatic cross-language interop. Still lacks the lovely compositional feeling of Haskell though.

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Mar 8, 2018

Meanwhile the transfer of ideas to established langs will happen, but it's still not as nice. There's only some much you can retrofit, and it's nigh impossible to take some things away (eg. arbitrary side-effects, pervasive null).

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Mar 8, 2018

But it's still an important process to happen while we still figure out what on earth we're doing. So much still to figure out on the research side. 😰

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Mar 8, 2018

Still would highly recommend learning Haskell - tons to learn from a pure, typed, functional language, with a strong link to category theory. This is in spite of its flaws (I wish Haskellers would be more open about them though).

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Brendan Zabarauskas

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Yeah. I think the big thing that langs like Haskell can teach you is architectural stuff - like pushing effects out to the boundaries of a system, and thinking about how components compose. Alas that is something that takes time to sink in and then be able to be transferred…

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Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Mar 8, 2018

No need to push yourself, I just like sparking curiosity! 😊 Tbh, I don't do much Haskell myself - I just picked up a bunch of it in part from trying to port stuff from Haskell to Rust over the years.