[HN Gopher] What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too (2020)
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       What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too (2020)
        
       Author : envp
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-12-14 19:31 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | anyonecancode wrote:
       | Haskell is neat, and is one of those things I'll regularly come
       | back to play with in my spare time. A lot of the ideas behind it
       | have made me a better programmer. Rust I've never touched, though
       | it looks interesting. But:
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       | - In my daily work, the work that pays my bills, I regularly use
       | software built in Rust, eg ripgrep.
       | 
       | - About the only time I ever cross paths with Haskell is in those
       | times when I'm going out of my way to do so as part of my tech
       | hobbying.
       | 
       | I think that's an important difference
        
       | envp wrote:
       | Previous discussions:
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       | - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24449927
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       | - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24401748
        
         | geofft wrote:
         | Thanks, I missed this at the bottom of the gist, but it was
         | helpfully quoted in a comment:
         | 
         | > _As one might have guessed, this is not an essay. It 's a
         | transcript of the following talk by R. Martin with some
         | substitutions made (SmallTalk -> Haskell, Ruby -> Rust, and
         | others). You are free to make any conclusions from this._
         | 
         | I think that means that this isn't a serious enough argument to
         | be worth engaging with.
        
       | pydry wrote:
       | There never really seemed to be much of a hacker culture around
       | haskell. People liked to talk about it much more than they liked
       | to build things with it.
       | 
       | By contrast people really do seem to love building things in
       | rust.
        
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