Oskar Wickström rewrites the Oden-to-Go transpiler from Racket to Haskell. Oden is an FP language comprising an ML type system and LISP syntax. Oskar explains that he made the migration because of several advantages that Haskell offered over Racket: exhaustive pattern-match checking, type-guided refactoring, monad transformers, and faster execution times.
Apropos, the convo over at lobste.rs links to this claim by Gabriel Gonzalez: "Haskell is an amazing language for writing your own compiler. If you are writing a compiler in another language you should genuinely consider switching."
Tim Kellogg: I’ve known a few old programmers nearing retirement that have a long list of very impressive accomplishments. The older and more accomplished they get, the more they prefer redundancy over dependency. The oldest and most accomplished will write their own load balancers, TCP stacks, loggers, everything if need be. Are they on to something?
From HN: If you have the time, I'd advise you to learn Haskell, in order to
stretch your mind and become an excellent OCaml developer, the way
learning Latin makes you a better French or Italian writer.