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Really like this language. I would love more if we can make developing production code easier.
by thecloudlet 4mo ago
Really like this language. I would love more if we can make developing production code easier.
- shideneyu 4mo agoI like it too. It's underrated because the learning curve is very high
- thesz 4mo agoThe steepness of Haskell learning curve is exaggerated. I have experience where completely unmotivated (due to then ongoing very bad divorce) former Java programmer took a description of CPU for model code generation in Haskell's eDSL and successfully extended it in a month. The model had tricky (at the time) type level programming and type classes with associated types.
- mchaver 4mo agoWhat do you find about bringing it into production? Is it the actual language patterns or the tools? I've done Haskell in production for over a decade now so I am not sure what challenges newcomers face.
- cosmic_quanta 4mo agoWe're always happy to hear about pain points! For example, one thing that is a friction point at my own job is knowledge of tooling for performance tuning and optimization. It's not that Haskell doesn't have this tooling, it's just not well-known. Is there anything in particular you would need?
- thecloudlet 4mo agoI think the greatest problem is documentation. I work on compilers daily. Sometimes I am forced to read directly in to Ghc’s code to just use as a developer. Maybe we should use Ai to generate up-to-date docs that are well organized like a book, so that all devs are more easy to conquer the different tools and flows. For example, in C++, for basic toolchains LSP, formatters, standards of formatting, guidelines for performance, do and don’ts, … are more accessible. I know it’s partially because of the size of the community. If we find a way to make the beginners, or experienced dev from other languages easier to start writing production code. We can thrive more.