- Towards a prevalent alternative prelude? - #5 by Kleidukos
- Tech Agenda Track: Meeting Minutes 3/17 (under the heading Potential for split-base)
…yet another opinion: can you at least provide a URL to support this statement?
…or could it be that it’s just Haskell that’s withering away, as people look to other languages e.g. to avoid all this seemingly-perpetual “discussion” about various aspects of Haskell’s future!
From page 46 of 55 in A History of Haskell: Being Lazy With Class:
At the other end, mainstream languages are adopting more and more declarative constructs: comprehensions, iterators, database query expressions, first-class functions, and more besides.
We expect this trend to continue, driven especially by the goad of parallelism, which punishes unrestricted effects cruelly.
(…not to mention the “rising tide” of hardware-level concurrency.)
…so, as this decision seems to indicate:
FP won’t be disappearing any time soon. As for Haskell…that remains to be seen.