I wanna do a project in haskell soooo bad.. i just cant justify a full stack project with it for various technical and social reasons... but its so much fun!

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@freemo I had a course on Logical and #FunctionalProgramming in college (in the 90s), and I remember falling in love with the language at first sight. And back then the compiler was just slooow. 🤦‍♂️

But I loved the functional paradigm and the elegant style embedded in the language. Just like you, I always thought the difficult part was to find a real project to work in, or at least, one related to my main area of work.

The famous example that always comes to mind is Pandoc.

https://pandoc.org/

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@keyeoh I've done tons of little things here and there in haskell.. the problem with large projects is that there just arent enough good libraries outt there for it and finding developers for it isnt easy.... also doesnt help that it compiles to a native binary rather than run as a script (tthough we have java based haskell now)

@freemo @keyeoh GHC 9.6 should have a native JS and WASM backend, if you’re into that sort of thing.

I have to say I disagree on the lack of both decent libraries and finding developers. I’ve been using Haskell professionally for nearly a decade now and rarely find either hard to come by.

Edit: a year -> a decade… quite a difference!

@Axman6

For the common stuff youll have no trouble finding libraries.. its the more obscure stuff youll be stuck with.. I cant tell you how many times ive wanted to do a project in haskell but the algorithm of interest simply had no implementation.

@keyeoh

@keyeoh @freemo Well! Then you just get the pleasure of being the one to write it! Someone had to write the others, time to be the changes you wish to see in the world 😁

@Axman6

Ive written a few algorithms in haskell partly for the fun partly for the need. But when starting a new project I usually pick the language that will burden me the least.

@keyeoh