Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus F#, OCaml, et. al. ...

2008/9/30 Galchin, Vasili :

thanks .. ... just trying to get an objective viewpoint and see where the "holes" are ...

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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Don Stewart wrote:

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Without more information, all we can really do is an overview.

There's almost 800 Haskell libraries on hackage.haskell.org (millions of lines of code). On average, 2 new libraries are released each day (though 12 new libs were released in the last 24 hours). That's 700 new libraries a year at the current rate.

If I visit Arch Linux, I find, [...]

Haskell is growing really fast (in community, libraries and tools). But, Vasili, Dons pushes a lot into Arch, so although he gives a correct statement, you shouldn't build your point of view relying only on that part of his answer.... Just rember the number about the Haskell libraries (and the fact it is growing), not the particular state in Arch (which seems a very nice place to use haskell, I'm new to Arch for a few days now...). Cheers, Thu