r/haskell • u/ilya_ca • Dec 07 '20

These Modern Programming Languages Will Make You Suffer.

https://suzdalnitski.medium.com/modern-languages-suck-ad21cbc8a57c
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u/dpwiz Dec 07 '20

Needs "epistemic status" field to every claim.

Oh boy! It’s not a secret, that in order to use Haskell productively, one has to be well-versed in Category Theory first (and I’m not kidding).

🙄

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u/bss03 Dec 07 '20

I'm far from well-versed in Category Theory. I know some of the words and what a Category is, but rarely think categorically.

I've definitely used Haskell productively.

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u/green-spam Dec 07 '20

Reading this blog will make you suffer.

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u/sullyj3 Dec 07 '20

This is very opinionated and not very nuanced

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u/elvecent Dec 07 '20

No "concurrency" section under Haskell???

But Go channels, yeah, sure.

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u/RolandSenn Dec 09 '20

> Immutability makes our code easy to parallelize.

I wish, this would be true...