As with any common infrastructure, opinions are abound about what is wrong with it. base has plenty of historic baggage, yet many issues have been addressed. Applicative Monad, FTP, Semigroup Monoid, Monad of No Return. I’ve shipped hundreds of thousands of lines of code to production through many transitions and GHC’s type system has made what would be harrowing in another language actually quite pleasant. The community is forgiving of change if the direction is an improvement. There are clear and well established issues with base (String, partial functions, etc). The problems are known. The community is encouraging of fixing them. Why create another standard when we can major version bump and rip off the band-aid?
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