Commercial Haskell should go after Python / Julia, not Rust

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@jameshaydon

• Haskell seems “locked down” (types? purity is handcuffs? no imperative programming?)

Perhaps it’s time to show how those up-front restrictions can be worthwhile: instead of just being multi-threaded by default, make Haskell parallel by default:

(pages 18-19 of 217)

This no-intervention-needed parallelism is usually called implicit parallelism and it is very important for scalable machines: one cannot expect a programmer to pre-plan the execution of hundreds of thousands of independent processing tasks “by hand.” Consequently, functional programming - which proponents claim is superior anyway - holds the prospect for significant parallelism without any extra effort from programmers.

Graph reduction without pointers, William D. Partain (1989).

So what would be needed for this to happen in GHC?