There are less than 5k Haskell users on Github, and they've released 30k repos.
By comparison, Go has 9k users and 50k repos. And a lot of people say that Go is not that useful of a language because the community is small.
What I'm saying isn't particularly controversial. There's a long thread here where Haskell is brought up frequently in the same context I'm talking about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8802454
My definition of practical is this: people use it in practice. They use it for business or for personal projects that other people get use out of.
The core purpose of software is to automate things that, otherwise, people would have to do. What large jobs is Haskell currently automating for people?
> By comparison, Go has 9k users and 50k repos. And a lot of people say that Go is not that useful of a language because the community is small.
Some people call Python too small. Some even claim "Haskell is mostly used for small, single-purpose tools, or it's used to teach FP principles". Some people say a lot of things, that doesn't make it true.
> My definition of practical is this: people use it in practice. They use it for business or for personal projects that other people get use out of.
I use Haskell for freelance clients currently.
> The core purpose of software is to automate things that, otherwise, people would have to do. What large jobs is Haskell currently automating for people?
Standard Chartered is particularly of note, as you can see in this quora question. You can also see other examples of Haskell automating jobs for people:
By comparison, Go has 9k users and 50k repos. And a lot of people say that Go is not that useful of a language because the community is small.
What I'm saying isn't particularly controversial. There's a long thread here where Haskell is brought up frequently in the same context I'm talking about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8802454
My definition of practical is this: people use it in practice. They use it for business or for personal projects that other people get use out of.
The core purpose of software is to automate things that, otherwise, people would have to do. What large jobs is Haskell currently automating for people?