On Nov 18, 2005, at 2:17 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
I hope you don't abandon Haskell altogether. Without steady, friendly pressure from applications-end folk like you, things won't improve. It's incredibly valuable feedback. But I can see that when you have to deliver something next week you can't wait around for some someone to get around to fixing your problem. (They aren't paid either!) Maybe you can use Haskell for something less mission-critical, so that you can keep up the pressure?
Here is some feedback on a negative experience I had with Haskell recently (really about the only negative experience :) I was playing with one of the Haskell OpenGL libraries (actually it's a refined FFI) over the summer and some things about it rubbed me the wrong way. I wanted to try fixing them but I really couldn't figure out how to get ahold of the code and start hacking. I found some candidates, but it seemed like old cvs repositories or something. I was confused, ran out of time and moved on. Why do I bring it up? If it had been obvious where to get an official copy of the library I could have tried sending in some patches to make things work the way I wanted. I'm a huge fan of darcs repositories, BTW. Thanks, Jason